A project heading
Enter HELLO, select Standard with a width of 80 and no frame. Compare it with Small using the same text. Look at each letter’s footprint and the total height.
10 FIGlet fonts · Live preview and comparison
Text to ASCII: find your style
Enter a name or short phrase to make a character banner. Choose a real FIGlet font, compare the results and check the width before copying.
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FIGlet text generator
Enable JavaScript to generate a banner and compare fonts. The explanations and examples remain available without it.
Choose a font for your use
| Starting point | Fonts to compare | Useful check |
|---|---|---|
| Short signature | Mini, Small, Straight | Check legibility at the final size, without zooming. |
| README heading | Standard, Slant, Big | Keep the width comfortable in the reading window. |
| Text poster | Banner, Doom, Lean | Check line breaks and total height. |
| Handwritten look | Script | Compare similar letters, especially lowercase. |
These are editorial starting points, not a universal ranking. The same word can be much wider in another font: measured output width tells you more than the number of input letters.
For a name-based activity, distinguish a decorative FIGlet banner from a handwriting model. If you need letters to trace on paper, the printable name worksheets from Abecedaires.com offer a separate activity; choose a writing style consistent with the learner’s classroom model. Resource in French.
Two examples to reproduce
A name with an accent
Enter Café 2026. An accented glyph may be missing from a font. The tool reports it; enable accent simplification only if you accept changing é into e. Then compare Small with Slant.
Simplification applies to the input text. It is not a general transliteration system for all languages.
What “FIGlet” means here
The generator uses figlet.js with ten FIGlet font files bundled with this site. Letters are assembled from glyphs defined in a font, rather than just enlarged and rasterised. The official manual explains .flf files, spacing and output width.
The JavaScript engine's width settings and APIs are documented in the official figlet.js repository. Font files retain their authors’ comments and credits; see the bundled font credits.
The selection includes Standard, Small, Slant, Big, Banner, Mini, Script, Lean, Doom and Straight. The comparison uses your text with those same local fonts.
Manage width without losing your text
The input limit is explicitly set to 200 characters and 5 lines. Requested width ranges from 40 to 160 columns, excluding a frame. The engine can wrap the banner to fit; a frame adds its borders to the final width.
An input limit or missing glyph produces a message so you can correct it. The 39th character is not silently discarded. Check the actual output width and the complete result before exporting.
For a long sentence, ordinary text beside a small drawing is often easier to read. A banner hundreds of columns wide is not automatically useful just because it can be generated.
Copy, download and keep alignment
Use a monospace area or code block. TXT contains characters without fonts or colours. PNG fixes the appearance. SVG keeps text whose rendering still depends on the available font.
For a README, GitHub’s documented fenced blocks preserve line breaks and formatting. Our GitHub guide also handles drawings containing backticks. For conversations, see the Discord guide.
Reset restores all text-mode settings. Your input and results stay in this page; they are not sent to a generation service.