What characters are supported?

The built-in font covers A–Z and 0–9 plus spaces. Lowercase input is uppercased automatically, and any punctuation or symbol not in the font is simply skipped.

It is FIGlet-style — the same idea of mapping each character to a fixed set of text rows that are concatenated horizontally. It uses a compact built-in font rather than loading external .flf font files.

Why does the art look broken when I paste it?

ASCII art only lines up in a monospace (fixed-width) font. In a proportional font the columns drift. Paste it into a code block, terminal, or any monospaced context.

Does it work offline?

Yes. The font is embedded in the page and rendering is pure JavaScript, so once the page has loaded nothing is fetched and your text never leaves the browser.

Can I make a multi-line banner?

This tool renders a single line of block letters. For very tall single-line banners, try the ASCII Banner Generator, which uses a 7-row font.

ASCII Art Text (FIGlet-style)

Turn text into ASCII art

ASCII art text spells words using ordinary characters arranged into the shape of large letters. It is a classic way to add a header to a README, a login banner to a terminal, or a bit of flair to a chat message. This tool maps each character to a small built-in font where every glyph is the same number of rows tall, then stitches the rows together so the letters appear side by side.

How it works

Each supported character is stored as a fixed list of text rows — for example five rows for the letter shapes. To render a word, the tool walks the characters left to right and appends each glyph’s row to the matching output row:

row[0] = A.row0 + B.row0 + C.row0 + ...
row[1] = A.row1 + B.row1 + C.row1 + ...

A space is inserted between glyphs so neighbouring letters do not touch. The finished rows are joined with newlines. Because every glyph has the same height, the columns stay aligned — provided you display the result in a monospace font.

Tips and example

Keep words short; very long inputs produce art too wide for most terminals. Wrap the output in a fenced code block in Markdown so platforms render it in a fixed-width font and preserve the alignment. If a character vanishes from the output, it simply is not in the built-in font (only A–Z and 0–9 are covered). For a taller, bolder look, the companion ASCII Banner Generator uses a 7-row #-based font instead.