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A Sampler of FIGlet Font Conversions and Designs by Kent Nassen
There are 19 FIGlet fonts shown here. Below, I've tried to give credit where credit is due for font designs. Also see the full font listings since I usually put full credit (Usenet posting, etc.) in the comments at the beginning of each of my fonts. No guarantees on these e-mail addresses; some of them are several years old by now. All of these FIGlet fonts were assembled/ constructed/converted by me, and some are even my own designs.
In naming the fonts, I've tried to go with the designer's wishes, if stated, or in keeping with usual (typesetting) font-naming schemes, stuck the designer's name on it one way or another. If neither of those methods worked, I made something up. In one case I took a poll on a local BBS system (and that's how tombstone.flf got its name).
Bell This font is based on the upper case letters designed by Joshua Bell (jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca). I've added the lower case letters and punctuation, plus a few touch-ups along the way to make things work a bit better with FIGlet.
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' / / ` ____ ` ____ / \ ___ | |
| |,---. | ( | ( |,_-< .' ` | |
| |' ` | `--. | `--. | ` |----' | |
/ / | / \___.' / \___.' `----' `.___, /\__ /\__
Broadway This font design is by io80034@maine.maine.edu, based on the classic font of the same name.
8 888888888o 8 888888888o. ,o888888o. .8.
8 8888 `88. 8 8888 `88. . 8888 `88. .888.
8 8888 `88 8 8888 `88 ,8 8888 `8b :88888.
8 8888 ,88 8 8888 ,88 88 8888 `8b . `88888.
8 8888. ,88' 8 8888. ,88' 88 8888 88 .8. `88888.
8 8888888888 8 888888888P' 88 8888 88 .8`8. `88888.
8 8888 `88. 8 8888`8b 88 8888 ,8P .8' `8. `88888.
8 8888 88 8 8888 `8b. `8 8888 ,8P .8' `8. `88888.
8 8888 ,88' 8 8888 `8b. ` 8888 ,88' .888888888. `88888.
8 888888888P 8 8888 `88. `8888888P' .8' `8. `88888.
8 888888888o. `8.`888b ,8' .8. `8.`8888. ,8'
8 8888 `^888. `8.`888b ,8' .888. `8.`8888. ,8'
8 8888 `88. `8.`888b ,8' :88888. `8.`8888. ,8'
8 8888 `88 `8.`888b .b ,8' . `88888. `8.`8888.,8'
8 8888 88 `8.`888b 88b ,8' .8. `88888. `8.`88888'
8 8888 88 `8.`888b .`888b,8' .8`8. `88888. `8. 8888
8 8888 ,88 `8.`888b8.`8888' .8' `8. `88888. `8 8888
8 8888 ,88' `8.`888`8.`88' .8' `8. `88888. 8 8888
8 8888 ,o88P' `8.`8' `8,`' .888888888. `88888. 8 8888
8 888888888P' `8.` `8' .8' `8. `88888. 8 8888
Crawford This has got to be one of my all-time favorite Rowan Crawford (s1171180@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au) ASCII fonts.
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/ ]| \ / T| T__T T| | / \ | \ | \
/ / | D )Y o || | | || __jY Y| D )| \
/ / | / | || | | || l_ | O || / | D Y
/ \_ | \ | _ |l ` ' !| _] | || \ | |
\ || . Y| | | \ / | T l !| . Y| |
\____jl__j\_jl__j__j \_/\_/ l__j \___/ l__j\_jl_____j
CyberLarge One of three fonts in Lennert Stock's (stock@fwi.uva.nl) Cyberfont series.
_______ __ __ ______ _______ ______ _______ ______ ______ _______
| \_/ |_____] |______ |_____/ | |_____| |_____/ | ____ |______
|_____ | |_____] |______ | \_ |_____ | | | \_ |_____| |______
CyberMedium Continuing Lennert's Cyberfont series...
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| \_/ |__] |___ |__/ |\/| |___ | \ | | | |\/|
|___ | |__] |___ | \ | | |___ |__/ | |__| | |
CyberSmall The smallest font in the Cyberfont series by Lennert Stock.
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|___ Y |==] |=== |--> ==== |\/| |--| |___ |___
Double Font design by Peter Weighill (stuce@csv.warwick.ac.uk).
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|| \\ // \\ || || || )) || ||
|| )) (( )) || || ||=) || ||==
||_// \\_// \\_// ||_)) ||__| ||___
Isometric1 Another interesting font series from Lennert Stock (stock@fwi.uva.nl). There are four rotations. I suppose I could have called them something more descriptive of their rotations (front/back/left/right/ sideways/backwards...) but I wimped out and just called them 1, 2, 3, and 4.
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___ /\ \ /\ \
/\ \ /::\ \ /::\ \
\:\ \ /:/\ \ \ /:/\:\ \
/::\__\ _\:\~\ \ \ /:/ \:\ \
__/:/\/__/ /\ \:\ \ \__\ /:/__/ \:\__\
/\/:/ / \:\ \:\ \/__/ \:\ \ /:/ /
\::/__/ \:\ \:\__\ \:\ /:/ /
\:\__\ \:\/:/ / \:\/:/ /
\/__/ \::/ / \::/ /
\/__/ \/__/
Isometric2
___ ___
/\__\ /\ \
___ /:/ _/_ /::\ \
/\__\ /:/ /\ \ /:/\:\ \
/:/__/ /:/ /::\ \ /:/ \:\ \
/::\ \ /:/_/:/\:\__\ /:/__/ \:\__\
\/\:\ \__ \:\/:/ /:/ / \:\ \ /:/ /
~~\:\/\__\ \::/ /:/ / \:\ /:/ /
\::/ / \/_/:/ / \:\/:/ /
/:/ / /:/ / \::/ /
\/__/ \/__/ \/__/
Isometric3
___ ___
___ / /\ / /\
/ /\ / /:/_ / /::\
/ /:/ / /:/ /\ / /:/\:\
/__/::\ / /:/ /::\ / /:/ \:\
\__\/\:\__ /__/:/ /:/\:\ /__/:/ \__\:\
\ \:\/\ \ \:\/:/~/:/ \ \:\ / /:/
\__\::/ \ \::/ /:/ \ \:\ /:/
/__/:/ \__\/ /:/ \ \:\/:/
\__\/ /__/:/ \ \::/
\__\/ \__\/
Isometric4
___ ___
___ / /\ / /\
/__/\ / /::\ / /::\
\__\:\ /__/:/\:\ / /:/\:\
/ /::\ _\_ \:\ \:\ / /:/ \:\
__/ /:/\/ /__/\ \:\ \:\ /__/:/ \__\:\
/__/\/:/~~ \ \:\ \:\_\/ \ \:\ / /:/
\ \::/ \ \:\_\:\ \ \:\ /:/
\ \:\ \ \:\/:/ \ \:\/:/
\__\/ \ \::/ \ \::/
\__\/ \__\/
OS/2 This one's mine based on a .signature by Peter Kay (P.J.Kay@iti.salford.ac.uk). I started with the "OS/2" .sig and went from there, adding characters. It wasn't a real difficult font to edit, but a few characters were a bit tedious to get "right."
___oooo_____ooooo________oo___ooooo__ _oo____oo__oo___oo______oo__oo____oo_ oo______oo__oo_________oo_________oo_ oo______oo____oo______oo________ooo__ _oo____oo__oo___oo___oo_______ooo____ ___oooo_____ooooo___oo______oooooooo_ ___________________oo________________
Rowancap Another Rowan Crawford (s1171180@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au) design.
dMMMMb .aMMMb dMP dMP dMP .aMMMb dMMMMb .aMMMb .aMMMb dMMMMb
dMP.dMP dMP"dMP dMP dMP dMP dMP"dMP dMP dMP dMP"VMP dMP"dMP dMP.dMP
dMMMMK" dMP dMP dMP dMP dMP dMMMMMP dMP dMP dMP dMMMMMP dMMMMP"
dMP"AMF dMP.aMP dMP.dMP.dMP dMP dMP dMP dMP dMP.aMP dMP dMP dMP
dMP dMP VMMMP" VMMMPVMMP" dMP dMP dMP dMP VMMMP" dMP dMP dMP
Sblood This is a fun one. For a while on rec.arts.ascii and alt.ascii-art these dripping blood/poison fonts were all the rage. This smaller version of blood (or poison, a similar font) was designed by David Issel (dissel@nunic.nu.edu).
@@@@@@ @@@@@@@ @@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@ @@@@@@@
!@@ @@! @@@ @@! @@! @@@ @@! @@@ @@! @@@
!@@!! @!@!@!@ @!! @!@ !@! @!@ !@! @!@ !@!
!:! !!: !!! !!: !!: !!! !!: !!! !!: !!!
::.: : :: : :: : ::.: : : :. : : :. : :: : :
SmKeyBoard I liked this one so much, I've been it using for my .signature for several years. It found its way into one of Sven Guckes' .sig collections at one point. The design credit goes to Bas Meijer (bas@damek.kth.se), who posted one of the more interesting newsgroup comments I've seen in rec.arts.ascii (see his post in the comments in the smkeyboard font file). I filled in the rest of the characters (pretty easy, eh?). Try this font with Paul Burton's FigWin program (figlet.org, see fgwnbeta.zip) using "vertical smushing" and you can come very close to duplicating Bas Meijer's post...one of these days I'll have to add that Return key, though!
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||S |||m |||K |||e |||y |||B |||o |||a |||r |||d ||
||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__||
|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|
Stacey This is a design by davidstacey@BIX.com (davidstacey on BIX).
___________________________________________
7 77 77 _ 77 77 77 7 7
| ___!!__ __!| _ || ___!| ___!| ! |
!__ 7 7 7 | 7 || 7___| __|_!_ _!
7 | | | | | || 7| 7 7 7
!_____! !__! !__!__!!_____!!_____! !___!
TombStone This one was quite a bit of work for me and one of my very first designs. Almost all the characters in this font are my design.
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| / \ |\/| |_) (_ | / \ |\ | |_
| \ / | | |_) , ) | \ / | \| |
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~
USAFlag Another of David Issel's (dissel@nunic.nu.edu) font designs.
::: === :::=== :::==== :::===== ::: :::==== :::=====
::: === ::: ::: === ::: ::: ::: === :::
=== === ===== ======== ====== === ======== === =====
=== === === === === === === === === === ===
====== ====== === === === ======== === === =======
Whimsy is a font design contrived by llyra@serv.net while wasting time at work, she says. Let's hope her boss doesn't care...
d8b d8,
?88 `8P
88b
?88 d8P d8P 888888b 88b 88bd8b,d88b .d888b,?88 d8P
d88 d8P' d8P' 88P `?8b 88P 88P'`?8P'?8b ?8b, d88 88
?8b ,88b ,88' d88 88P d88 d88 d88 88P `?8b ?8( d88
`?888P'888P' d88' 88bd88' d88' d88' 88b`?888P' `?88P'?8b
)88
,d8P
`?888P'
That's all for now, folks!
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| | | | __ _ _ __ _ __ _ _
| |_| |/ _` | '_ \| '_ \| | | |
| _ | (_| | |_) | |_) | |_| |
|_| |_|\__,_| .__/| .__/ \__, |
|_| |_| |___/
_____ _ _ _ _ _ _
| ___(_) __ _| | ___| |_(_)___(_)_ __ __ _| |
| |_ | |/ _` | |/ _ \ __| |_ / | '_ \ / _` | |
| _| | | (_| | | __/ |_| |/ /| | | | | (_| |_|
|_| |_|\__, |_|\___|\__|_/___|_|_| |_|\__, (_)
|___/ |___/