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Figlet-style font gallery

Type once and see the result rendered in every style and size the face can do, side by side. Comparing them properly is the hard part of picking one — flicking a dropdown back and forth never quite lets you see the difference.

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Keep it short — a long word in every style at once is a lot of sideways scrolling.

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  • BlockSolid full blocks. The most readable at any size.
     ███  █     █   █ ████  █   █
    █   █ █     █   █ █   █ █   █
    █     █      █ █  █   █ █   █
    █  ██ █       █   ████  █████
    █   █ █       █   █     █   █
    █   █ █       █   █     █   █
     ███  █████   █   █     █   █
  • ShadedMedium-shade blocks — softer, and closer to grey in a terminal.
     ▓▓▓  ▓     ▓   ▓ ▓▓▓▓  ▓   ▓
    ▓   ▓ ▓     ▓   ▓ ▓   ▓ ▓   ▓
    ▓     ▓      ▓ ▓  ▓   ▓ ▓   ▓
    ▓  ▓▓ ▓       ▓   ▓▓▓▓  ▓▓▓▓▓
    ▓   ▓ ▓       ▓   ▓     ▓   ▓
    ▓   ▓ ▓       ▓   ▓     ▓   ▓
     ▓▓▓  ▓▓▓▓▓   ▓   ▓     ▓   ▓
  • ASCIIPlain hashes. Pure 7-bit ASCII, so it survives anywhere.
     ###  #     #   # ####  #   #
    #   # #     #   # #   # #   #
    #     #      # #  #   # #   #
    #  ## #       #   ####  #####
    #   # #       #   #     #   #
    #   # #       #   #     #   #
     ###  #####   #   #     #   #
  • OutlineOnly the edges are drawn, leaving the letters hollow.
     ███  █     █   █ ████  █   █
    █   █ █     █   █ █   █ █   █
    █     █      █ █  █   █ █   █
    █  ██ █       █   ████  █████
    █   █ █       █   █     █   █
    █   █ █       █   █     █   █
     ███  █████   █   █     █   █
  • Drop shadowSolid blocks with a lighter shadow offset behind them.
     ███  █     █   █ ████  █   █
    █ ░░█ █░    █░  █░█░░░█ █░  █░
    █░   ░█░     █ █ ░█░  █░█░  █░
    █░ ██ █░      █ ░ ████ ░█████░
    █░  █░█░      █░  █░░░░ █░░░█░
    █░  █░█░      █░  █░    █░  █░
     ███ ░█████   █░  █░    █░  █░
      ░░░  ░░░░░   ░   ░     ░   ░
  • Letter fillEach letter is drawn using its own character, like the old banner command.
     GGG  l     y   y pppp  h   h
    G   G l     y   y p   p h   h
    G     l      y y  p   p h   h
    G  GG l       y   pppp  hhhhh
    G   G l       y   p     h   h
    G   G l       y   p     h   h
     GGG  lllll   y   p     h   h
  • DotsRound dots — lighter on the eye for a subtitle.
     ●●●  ●     ●   ● ●●●●  ●   ●
    ●   ● ●     ●   ● ●   ● ●   ●
    ●     ●      ● ●  ●   ● ●   ●
    ●  ●● ●       ●   ●●●●  ●●●●●
    ●   ● ●       ●   ●     ●   ●
    ●   ● ●       ●   ●     ●   ●
     ●●●  ●●●●●   ●   ●     ●   ●
  • Half heightTwo rows squashed into one using half-block characters.
    ▄▀▀▀▄ █     █   █ █▀▀▀▄ █   █
    █  ▄▄ █      ▀▄▀  █▄▄▄▀ █▄▄▄█
    █   █ █       █   █     █   █
     ▀▀▀  ▀▀▀▀▀   ▀   ▀     ▀   ▀