FIGlet

{{Infobox software

| name = FIGlet

| logo =

| screenshot =

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| author = Glenn Chappell, Ian Chai

| developer =

| released = 1991 (as "newban") / 1993 (figlet 2.0){{cite web|url=http://www.figlet.org/figlet_history.html|title="Why does FIGlet exist?" a history of FIGlet|year=1995|first=Glen|last=Chappell|access-date=2008-04-25}}

| latest release version = 2.2.5{{cite web|url=http://www.figlet.org|title=FIGLet home page|access-date=2012-06-18}}

| latest release date = May 2012

| latest preview version =

| latest preview date =

| programming language = C

| operating system = Unix-like

| platform = Cross-platform

| language =

| genre = Typesetting

| license = New BSD{{cite web|url=http://www.figlet.org/figlet_history.html|title="Why does FIGlet exist?" a history of FIGlet|access-date=2011-01-15}}

| website = {{URL|www.figlet.org}}

}}

FIGlet is a computer program that generates text banners, in a variety of typefaces, composed of letters made up of conglomerations of smaller ASCII characters (see ASCII art). The name derives from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters".{{cite web|url=http://www.figlet.org/faq.html|title=FIGlet FAQ|access-date=2013-09-19}}

Being free software, FIGlet is commonly included as part of many Unix-like operating systems (Linux,{{cite book|chapter-url=http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_20.html#SEC321|chapter=Text Fonts|title=The Linux Cookbook|first=Michael|last=Stutz|year=2001|access-date=2008-04-25|publisher=No Starch Press|isbn=1-886411-48-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/linuxcookbooktip00stut}} BSD, etc.) distributions, but it has been ported to other platforms as well. The official FIGlet FTP site includes precompiled ports for the Acorn, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, BeOS, Mac, MS-DOS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, as well as a reimplementation in Perl (Text::FIGlet[https://metacpan.org/module/Text::FIGlet Text::FIGlet]).{{cite web|url=http://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/|title=Official FIGlet FTP site|access-date=2008-04-25}} There are third-party reimplementations of FIGlet in Java{{cite web|url=http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/FigletJava/|title=Figlet Java|first=Benoît|last=Rigaut|year=1996|access-date=2008-04-25|archive-date=2008-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509134946/http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/FigletJava/|url-status=dead}} (including one embedded in the JavE ASCII art editor), JavaScript,{{cite web|url=http://patorjk.com/software/taag/|title=TAAG|first=Pat|last=Gillespie|year=2006|access-date=2008-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220130116/http://patorjk.com/software/taag/|archive-date=2012-02-20|url-status=dead}} PHP,{{cite web|url=http://www.phpclasses.org/phpfiglet|title=PHP Figlet|first=Lucas|last=Baltes|access-date=2008-04-25}}{{cite web|url=http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.text.html#zend.text.figlet|title=Zend Framework – Zend_Text_Figlet Component|access-date=2013-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822005633/http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.text.html#zend.text.figlet|archive-date=2012-08-22|url-status=dead}} Python,{{cite web|url=https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfiglet/|title=pyfiglet|first=Christopher|last=Jones|year=2007|access-date=2014-11-27}} and Go.{{cite web |last1=Sampson |first1=Luke |title=GitHub - lukesampson/figlet: Figlet in Go. |url=https://github.com/lukesampson/figlet |website=Github |access-date=13 December 2018 |date=13 December 2018}} DuckDuckgo also has their own Figlet version, to be able to use it you need to type "Figlet [text]" and you can easily Copy & Paste everywhere{{Cite web |last=frostedKIVI |date=2020-03-23 |title=Duckduckgo has a built in FIGlet, how amazing is that? Possibly my favorite easter egg especially since i found it all by myself randomly |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/fnpq82/duckduckgo_has_a_built_in_figlet_how_amazing_is/?rdt=39682 |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=r/duckduckgo}}