ASCII art generator

Turn a word into big letters drawn with keyboard characters, in seven classic FIGlet fonts. Copy it as plain text, or as a code block that keeps its shape in Discord.

Your text

Short words work best: each letter is several characters wide. Accents become plain letters; emoji are skipped.

Standard

  _   _        _  _
 | | | |  ___ | || |  ___
 | |_| | / _ \| || | / _ \
 |  _  ||  __/| || || (_) |
 |_| |_| \___||_||_| \___/

Big

  _    _        _  _
 | |  | |      | || |
 | |__| |  ___ | || |  ___
 |  __  | / _ \| || | / _ \
 | |  | ||  __/| || || (_) |
 |_|  |_| \___||_||_| \___/

Slant

    __  __       __ __
   / / / /___   / // /____
  / /_/ // _ \ / // // __ \
 / __  //  __// // // /_/ /
/_/ /_/ \___//_//_/ \____/

Small

  _  _       _  _
 | || | ___ | || | ___
 | __ |/ -_)| || |/ _ \
 |_||_|\___||_||_|\___/

Block

 _|    _|            _|  _|
 _|    _|    _|_|    _|  _|    _|_|
 _|_|_|_|  _|_|_|_|  _|  _|  _|    _|
 _|    _|  _|        _|  _|  _|    _|
 _|    _|    _|_|_|  _|  _|    _|_|

Shadow

  |   |        |  |
  |   |   _ \  |  |   _ \
  ___ |   __/  |  |  (   |
 _|  _| \___| _| _| \___/

Banner

 #     #
 #     # ###### #      #       ####
 #     # #      #      #      #    #
 ####### #####  #      #      #    #
 #     # #      #      #      #    #
 #     # #      #      #      #    #
 #     # ###### ###### ######  ####

What ASCII text art is

ASCII art draws pictures with the 95 printable characters of the basic ASCII set: letters, digits, slashes, underscores and pipes. Big text art builds each letter from several rows of those characters, so a word becomes a banner. Because it uses only basic characters, it looks the same on any device, as long as it is shown in a monospaced font where every character has the same width.

Keep the shape when you paste

Most chat apps and social sites use a proportional font, where an i is narrower than an m, and that bends the art out of shape. Paste it where text is monospaced: a code block, a terminal, a README file, a code comment or a plain text email. In Discord, Slack and similar apps, press Copy as code block: it wraps the art in three backticks so the app shows it in a monospaced box.

The seven fonts

Standard: the default FIGlet font, clean and readable.
Big and Banner: taller letters for a heading.
Slant: italic letters that lean right.
Small: fits more letters on a line.
Block and Shadow: letters with a filled or shaded look.

Each card shows how many characters wide the result is. Many terminals are 80 characters wide, so keep long words in Small or split them into two lines.

The fonts come from FIGlet, the classic program for big text, created by Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai and distributed under a BSD licence; each font's authors are named in its file. The letters are put together in your browser.

Questions

How do I make ASCII text art?

Type a word in the box. Every font redraws it at once. Press Copy under the one you like and paste it into a code block, a terminal or a text file.

Why does my ASCII art look broken after pasting?

The place you pasted it uses a proportional font. Paste it into a code block, or use Copy as code block for Discord and similar apps.

Which characters can I use?

Letters, digits, spaces and the usual keyboard punctuation. Accented letters become plain letters and emoji are skipped.

What is FIGlet?

A free program from the early 1990s that prints text in big letters made of characters. Its font files are still the standard for this kind of text art.