Choose a FIGlet font: width, style and accents

Two fonts, the same text

HELLO — Standard

  _   _ _____ _     _     ___  
 | | | | ____| |   | |   / _ \ 
 | |_| |  _| | |   | |  | | | |
 |  _  | |___| |___| |__| |_| |
 |_| |_|_____|_____|_____\___/ 

31 × 5 columns / lines

HELLO — Small

  _  _ ___ _    _    ___  
 | || | __| |  | |  / _ \ 
 | __ | _|| |__| |_| (_) |
 |_||_|___|____|____\___/ 

26 × 4 columns / lines

These outputs come from the site’s bundled engine: HELLO, width 80, no frame or simplification. Standard produces 31 columns by 5 lines; Small produces 26 by 4. These results apply to this word and these settings. They do not show that Small reduces every text by the same proportion.

Selection workflow

1. Open the generator and enter your actual title, not just ABC.
2. Compare all 10 fonts with identical text. Inspect ambiguous letters such as I, l, 1 and O, 0.
3. Check the result’s column count against the target area. The frame adds four columns.
4. Test accents before exporting. Read the text again if you use simplification.
5. Copy as a code block or export TXT, then check the destination.

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Width, spacing and frame

The FIGlet manual describes .flf fonts and rules for bringing letters together. On this site, the slider sets the available text width; displayed dimensions describe the actual output. Fit to screen changes the preview, not exported characters. A title that is too wide needs shorter wording, a new layout or a different font.

Accents and font credits

Simplification changes é to e and œ to oe, among other replacements: it does not draw a missing accent. Keep the original input for proper names. A FIGlet font differs from the monospace font displaying its output; changing Courier does not change the shapes built by Standard. The official FAQ introduces the project; bundled files come with credits and licences. Do not assume that every font found elsewhere shares one licence.

Choose an output format

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