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URI figlet â a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
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brontosaurusrex wrote 2 days ago:
I've 'ported' 3x3 and fakoo fonts to figlet/toilet format some time ago
URI [1]: https://brontosaurusrex.github.io/2021/05/18/3x3-typeface/
silax wrote 3 days ago:
Nice. I've used this for years. I love self-descriptive code so I use a
`flowerbox` and `flowerpot` bash script daily, with flowerpot being
just an alias of figlet.
reportaman wrote 3 days ago:
text art with functional value: [1] . It's displays your text
art/figlet, while serving as a nifty clock/timer. No dependencies other
than having zsh installed on your system, which exists on Mac by
default.
URI [1]: https://github.com/reportaman/arttime
alephnan wrote 3 days ago:
Has anyone made a JavaScript port?
Edit: ooh. There's this. But it's 6MB.
URI [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/figlet
krnlpnc wrote 3 days ago:
Ooh, do cowsay next!
ghgr wrote 3 days ago:
I love figlet! I use it to generate the ssh banner in every server I
set up. Not just for the l33t factor ;) but also to quickly confirm
visually which host I'm connecting to (specially when multi-hopping,
where you can see the whole chain of hosts). It works not only with
pure ssh, but also with tools working on top of it (scp, rsync, port
forwarding... I'm not sure if even sshfs).
outworlder wrote 3 days ago:
I like to use cowsay for this - in non-work settings.
neofetch > motd is also nice. [1] 'c.
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URI [1]: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch
lathiat wrote 3 days ago:
I always used to use both.
figlet | cowsay -n
lgvld wrote 3 days ago:
Same here! I feel "at home" when I set a more personnal banner. ;-)
Still I did not know figlet was a thing: I hitherto used the Text to
ASCII Art Generator (from patorjk.com) to do so. So thank you for
posting this. Obviously a CLI tool had to exist, but I never thought
about it.
sequoia wrote 3 days ago:
Hereâs an intro to toilet (similar tool) I wrote a while back:
URI [1]: https://sequoia.makes.software/fun-with-toilet/
m463 wrote 3 days ago:
I've use figlet, then later toilet for readable log messages.
apt-get install toilet
toilet --filter border --font future compile starting
Foomf wrote 3 days ago:
There are so many web based ascii text generators out there. What sets
this one apart?
Edit: looks like all those web based ascii text generators are just
using figlet under the hood.
koolba wrote 3 days ago:
Existing multiple decades ago and being available on just about every
FOSS operating system.
Foomf wrote 3 days ago:
I just realized now that many of the web based ascii text
generators use figlet under the hood. I wish I could delete my
comment but I seem to be unable to.
patorjk wrote 3 days ago:
I have a popular web based ascii text generator ( [1] ), it uses
FIGlet driver that I wrote ( [2] ). Many of the other ones out
there also use their own drivers (I've seen some written in php
and python). There are also different types of ASCII text fonts
out there other than FIGlet (ex: my app compiles fonts that were
made in the AOL days in the Arial font - which is interesting
because it's a non-monospaced font).
FIGlet is the most popular spec for these types of fonts though
(it's an app and a spec). The mailing list hasn't been active in
a decade, but people used to submit fonts there. It was cool to
see what people made.
URI [1]: https://patorjk.com/software/taag
URI [2]: https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js/
nine_k wrote 3 days ago:
Wow, the page has a few ftp:// links. The infrastructure must be really
stable.
dbacar wrote 3 days ago:
i was using this tool with watch to see some headline metrics :)
pvg wrote 3 days ago:
Previous thread from 2020, 61 comments
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926979
guessmyname wrote 3 days ago:
People re-post stuff like this all the time â [1] All the previous
threads (plural) [1] have something interesting. [1]
URI [1]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
URI [2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=figlet
pvg wrote 2 days ago:
All the previous threads (plural) [1] have something interesting.
That's the point of the previouslies-type comments
kalleboo wrote 3 days ago:
figlet, cowsay and tractorgen are the essentials on any UNIX machine
benjaminwootton wrote 3 days ago:
Frequently use figlet in shell scripts to demarcate sections. Very
handy tool!
muppetman wrote 3 days ago:
Similar to this, many years ago on HN there was a website shared that
would convert an image into HTML. I used it to generate the 404 image
on my personal website: [1] - Warning often causes older/slower
browsers to really choke!
If anyone remembers what that URL was, I'd love you to share it. No
amount of googling recently has been able to find it, I expect it's
probably lost to the sands of time. I've tried a few others I found on
google but none produce anything like that quality.
URI [1]: https://micro.muppetz.com/404
nigrioid wrote 3 days ago:
I remember coming across this one a long time ago. Could this be it?
URI [1]: https://neil.fraser.name/software/img2html/
nigrioid wrote 3 days ago:
Sadly, it appears it doesn't work anymore. I remember it having
very good quality.
walrus01 wrote 3 days ago:
Ffmpeg can work with aalib
jdfellow wrote 3 days ago:
libcaca [0] command img2txt can output html
[0]
URI [1]: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
pmoriarty wrote 3 days ago:
Though I've never tried it, I believe it can also be used by mpv to
play videos in ascii.
muppetman wrote 3 days ago:
I remember back in the day watching videos using mplayer with its
ascii output. That was always a riot!
tomjakubowski wrote 3 days ago:
If you have some interest in image processing, and know a little bit
of HTML, a program like that would be a great learning project!
muppetman wrote 3 days ago:
Sadly the only programming "language" I know is ircII and that's
not exactly in demand :)
CameronNemo wrote 3 days ago:
Is there a point to converting an image to HTML? I can use various
programs to convert an image to SVG.
muppetman wrote 3 days ago:
Purely for fun - I'd like to make some more 404 pages like the one
I linked to, and other various bits. I really like rendering
images using text and the webapp I used did such a great job (IMHO)
I don't think it has any practical purpose.
kzrdude wrote 3 days ago:
I think it's for fun
Jaruzel wrote 3 days ago:
# figlet $HOSTNAME > /etc/motd
On every box I own.
salzig wrote 3 days ago:
+ #-CPU-Core + RAM Size. That's me. :)
merlincorey wrote 3 days ago:
I gotta agree with someone named outworlder above -- you probably
should look into `neofetch` as its output might please you.
vogt wrote 3 days ago:
I made use of a âfor funâ type React module called
react-rainbow-ascii (paraphrasing) that had figlet integration that
worked really nicely just yesterday. If the author stumbles upon this
comment, just know I appreciate the ability to leverage all of the
figlet fonts!
riidom wrote 3 days ago:
I like to use the VSCode extension for this, ASCIIDecorator. It's good
for having readable text in the Minimap.
russellendicott wrote 3 days ago:
> It's good for having readable text in the Minimap.
Nice. Good idea.
milen wrote 3 days ago:
If you have a Mac, Monodraw [1] includes figlet - just select a Font
from the rect/text tool. It also supports custom/additional figlet
fonts.
URI [1]: https://monodraw.helftone.com
adamrezich wrote 3 days ago:
anyone remember the web version at good ol'
flamingtext.com/tools/figlet? rip
carapace wrote 3 days ago:
I use [1] It has a "Test All" button that's fun.
URI [1]: http://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/
cubes wrote 3 days ago:
Love Figlet, we used to use it frequently on the shared unix machine
where members of the Berkeley Computer Science Undergraduate
Association (CSUA) would hang out:
URI [1]: https://www.csua.berkeley.edu/
pvg wrote 3 days ago:
It makes more sense if you mention that on soda, /etc/motd was used
as a threaded forum and wall as realtime chat.
rahimiali wrote 3 days ago:
Also to mention sodaâs kernel was patched to kprint() a rootcow
at boot, before even the network driver was loaded. Dedication to
style.
cubes wrote 3 days ago:
True. Is soda still a thing? IIRC, soda also allowed non-root users
to use the wall utility?
pvg wrote 3 days ago:
I don't think it's been a thing for years and if you ask me, it
stopped being a thing when the old Sequent Symmetry went. Not
only non-root users could wall, remote users could wall. A
smaller, sillier internet.
cubes wrote 3 days ago:
I respectfully disagree. There was a vibrant community on soda
well into the early aughts, even if it was running FreeBSD on
x86 vs. some older more esoteric hardware architecture.
It's good to see that the CSUA encyclopedia still exists
somewhere, even if it's not hosted on soda anymore: [1] I had
the good fortune to meet and work with the primary author at a
small games company called Skotos Tech during my later
undergraduate years.
URI [1]: https://www.erzo.org/shannon/writing/csua/encyclopedia...
pvg wrote 3 days ago:
I mean, I'm not being entirely serious but it was kind of the
beginning of the end as shell accounts became increasingly
pointless. Although maybe my mental timeline is a bit off, I
remember a lottery scheduler getting implemented on the
FreeBSD soda and those writeups seem to be from the late 90s
not early 00s as I thought.
The t-shirts used to be a good way to run into strangers IRL
who would inform you that they too partied with Nick Weaver.
cubes wrote 3 days ago:
Yes, I partied with Nick Weaver. The lottery scheduler was
implemented in the late 90âs, but sodaâs kernel ran
with the lottery schedule well into the aughts.
I agree that shell accounts werenât as important by the
aughts, but the culture was still going strong in the early
aughts.
schoen wrote 3 days ago:
Patched to say "Boredcast message", as I recall!
cubes wrote 3 days ago:
Yes, that is correct.
mdtrooper wrote 3 days ago:
Two useful links:
- [1] : a figlet with vitamints
- [2] : more fonts for figlet and toilet.
URI [1]: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet
URI [2]: https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts
syoc wrote 3 days ago:
> TOIlet is in its very early development phase.
Hrrmm, seems like last release was more than 10 years ago.
merlincorey wrote 3 days ago:
The `--filter=` values are pretty telling on that one.
Noumenon72 wrote 3 days ago:
I tried to Ctrl+F for these, but they're actually in the
screenshot.
schroeding wrote 3 days ago:
> [1] Amazing logos / mascots. I love the whole site :D
URI [1]: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet
PaulHoule wrote 3 days ago:
Figlet is so much fun.
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