ASCII art fonts Readme ---------------------- Program Name ... : figlet - http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~chai/figlet.html Current Version : 1.0 (first release) Date ........... : 09/25/2000 Font creator.... : Cyrille Artho (cyrille@artho.com) What is is: ----------- Two fonts for the "figlet" program (URL see above). Figlet has been written by many people (but not me) - go to the figlet page for more information. These two fonts require the degree sign ° in order to work. If you have only ASCII characters, then you can pipe the output into tr '\260' o which fixes any potentially unreadable characters but makes the output less nice looking. _ _ _ _ _ _ _|__ _ |_. /\ ( / || _ ,_|_ _|__ _ |_ (_\(_\ |(_)| ||_. /--\_)\_|| (_\| |_ |(_)| ||_. _ _ _ ,_,_ . /| _) (_ _ |_ | |(|| |()\^/. -+><_) |()| ||_. Why? ---- Don't ask - because it is possible :) Lars Rohwedder told me about figlet after he saw that I created a simple font and a small Perl script that does essentially the same as figlet does, but without the bells and whistles. I then converted the font to figlet and added lower case and ISO-Latin characters to it, borrowing quite a few from the "mini" font. How it works: ------------- Both font (.flf) files have to be installed in the figlet font directory. Usually this goes like this: cd /usr/games/lib/figlet.dir tar -xf aafont.tar Remove the testset* and *.gif files if you only want the two fonts. Usage: figlet -f aafont figlet -f narrow Use "figlet -k" rather than "figlet" if you want the characters with a bigger horizontal spacing. The program expects input from STDIN and writes its output to STDOUT. Screenshots: ------------ There are a few screenshots in the archive, taken with the gnome-terminal and the Courier Biznet font. The other screenshots were taken using the standard xterm with the "tiny" and "unreadable" font settings, respectively. The screenshots were made using figlet -k -f aafont