Convert any text into large ASCII art banner lettering. Choose from 20 FIGlet-style font styles, control width, spacing and case. Copy or download the output for terminals, README files, code comments and social bios.
Enter the word, phrase, or title you want to convert. Short words (under 20 characters) produce the sharpest results. The preview renders in real time as you type so you can see each font immediately.
Select from 20 FIGlet-inspired font styles including Standard, Big, Block, Slant, Shadow, 3D, Bubble, Thin, Doom, Banner and more. Each font has a distinct personality — Standard works everywhere, Slant adds energy, Shadow adds depth.
Use the width slider to scale the output narrower (for email signatures or Slack) or wider (for README banners). Click Copy to copy the ASCII art to your clipboard, or Download to save as a .txt file.
ASCII art is visual art created entirely from printable characters in the ASCII character set — letters, numbers, and symbols. Text-banner ASCII art (also called FIGlet art) uses these characters to form large block letters that spell out words. It has been used since the 1970s in email signatures, program headers, terminal banners and README files.
FIGlet is an open-source program originally written by Frank, Ian and Glen (hence FIG) that converts text into large character banners. FIGlet fonts are layout files that define how each character looks in block-letter form. There are hundreds of FIGlet fonts, ranging from clean and minimal (Standard) to decorative and stylised (Doom, Big, Slant). This tool implements the most popular FIGlet-style layouts entirely in your browser using JavaScript.
ASCII art banners are used in code file headers (the large comment dividers at the top of scripts), terminal welcome screens, GitHub and GitLab README.md files, Discord server names and messages, retro-style social media bios, email signatures in plain-text email clients, and as section dividers in documentation. Terminals and monospace-rendered environments show them correctly. Always use a monospace font when displaying ASCII art.
ASCII art requires a monospace (fixed-width) font to display correctly. In a monospace font, every character occupies the same horizontal space, so columns line up perfectly. If you paste into a rich-text editor using a proportional font like Arial or Georgia, the characters have different widths and the art collapses. Always paste ASCII art into plain-text environments or ensure you apply a monospace font like Courier New, Consolas, or SF Mono.
For terminal output (80 columns), keep text under 8–10 characters for Standard font, or under 5–6 characters for Big font. For GitHub README files, which support wider blocks, you can go up to 15 characters. This tool shows a character-width indicator so you can see exactly how wide the output will be before copying.
Yes — place it inside a fenced code block (triple backtick) in your Markdown file. GitHub renders code blocks in a monospace font, so the art displays correctly. Without the code block fences, GitHub's Markdown renderer collapses whitespace and the art breaks.
