Create ASCII text banners in terminals using FIGlet and TOIlet
FIGlet is a small command line tool. You can use it to generate ASCII text banners and large text from terminal text. TOIlet is also a command line tool that you can use to generate large colorful letters from your terminal text. This article describes how to install and use FIGlet and TOIlet on Ubuntu.
Install FIGlet and TOIlet on Ubuntu
FIGlet and TOIlet can be installed from the terminal application. Open a terminal (ctrl + alt + t) and run the following command to install FIGlet and TOIlet on your Ubuntu system.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install figlet toilet
How to use FIGlet:
At the terminal run
figlet CONNECTwww
You can use the -c, -l, and -r flags to align the center and left and right of the output.
figlet -c CONNECTwww
figlet -l CONNECTwww
figlet -r CONNECTwww
You can control the text width -w and -t flags
figlet -w 110 CONNECTwww.com
figlet -t CONNECTwww.com
You can also change the font using the -f flag.
figlet -f pagga CONNECTwww
You can check the available fonts with the following command
ls /usr/share/figlet/
About the complete man page
man figlet
How to use the toilet:
Run in terminal app
toilet CONNECTwww
Filter text
toilet --filter metal CONNECTwww
If you want to change the font
toilet -f smscript CONNECTwww
For full usage details.
man toilet
that’s all.
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