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name: big_text description: Create ASCII art banners using figlet. Use this when the user asks for big text, banners, or ASCII art.

Big Text Skill

This skill allows you to generate large ASCII text banners using the figlet command.

Basic Usage

To create a basic banner using the standard font:

Copyfiglet "Hello World"

Specifying Fonts

You can change the style of the text by using the -f flag followed by the font name.

Copyfiglet -f slant "Hello"

Formatting Options

• Centering: Use -c to center the output.
• Right justify: Use -r to right justify.
• Left justify: Use -l (defaut).
• Width: Use -w <columns> to specify the output width (default is 80).

Example:

Copyfiglet -c -w 100 -f big "Centered Header"

Font Showcase

Below is a comprehensive list of available fonts categorized by style. Use these names with the -f flag.

Standard & Clean

• standard: The default font. Readable and classic.
• big: Larger version of standard.
• slant: Slanted/italic style. Very popular.
• smslant: Small slanted. Good for tighter spaces.
• small: Smaller, more compact characters.
• mini: Tiny text, good for footnotes.
• banner: Very large, wide characters (often rotates text to vertical on some systems, but effectively banner3 or similar is usually horizontal).
• digital: Resembles a digital clock display.
• term: Terminal style block text.

3D & Shadows

• shadow: Text with a drop shadow effect.
• smshadow: Small text with shadow.
• big: (Often has a 3D feel).
• larry3d: 3D block letters.
• block: Heavy block letters with 3D effect.
• 3-d: Wireframe 3D style.

Script & Cursive

• script: Connected cursive handwriting.
• smscript: Small script.
• slscript: Slanted script.
• cursive: Another cursive variant.

Novelty & Artistic

• bubble: Bubble letters.
• lean: Lean, tall letters.
• keyboard: Keys look like keyboard keys.
• fender: Fender guitar logo style.
• graffiti: Graffiti style (if available).
• doom: Style reminiscent of the Doom game logo.
• starwars: Star Wars logo style.
• weird: Artistic and strange shapes.
• alligator: Jagged, rough edges.
• dotmatrix: Dot matrix printer style.

Symbols & Abstract

• morse: Morse code output.
• binary: Binary representation.
• hex: Hexadecimal representation.

All Available Fonts

If you need a specific font not listed above, you can verify its existence by running:

Copyls $(figlet -I 2)

Common fonts found on many systems: 3-d, 3x5, 5lineoblique, acrobatic, alligator, alligator2, alphabet, avatar, banner, banner3, banner3-D, banner4, barbwire, basic, bell, big, bigchief, binary, block, bubble, bulbhead, calgphy2, caligraphy, catwalk, chunky, coinstak, colossal, computer, contessa, contrast, cosmic, cosmike, cricket, cursive, cyberlarge, cybermedium, cybersmall, diamond, digital, doh, doom, dotmatrix, double, drpepper, eftichess, eftifont, eftipiti, eftirobot, eftitalic, eftiwall, eftiwater, epic, fender, fourtops, fraktur, fuzzy, goofy, gothic, graceful, gradient, graffiti, greek, heart_left, heart_right, hex, hollywood, invita, isometric1, isometric2, isometric3, isometric4, italic, ivrit, jazmine, jerusalem, katakana, kban, keyboard, knob, larry3d, lcd, lean, letters, linux, lockergnome, madrid, marquee, maxfour, mike, mini, mirror, mnemonic, morse, moscow, nancyj, nancyj-fancy, nancyj-underlined, nipples, ntgreek, o8, ogre, pawp, peaks, pebbles, pepper, poison, puffy, pyramid, rectangles, relief, relief2, rev, roman, rot13, rounded, rowancap, rozzo, runic, runyc, sblood, script, serifcap, shadow, short, slant, slide, slscript, small, smisome1, smkeyboard, smscript, smshadow, smslant, speed, stacey, stampatello, standard, starwars, stellar, stop, straight, tanja, tengwar, term, thick, thin, threepoint, ticks, ticksslant, tinker-toy, tombstone, trek, tsalagi, twopoint, univers, usaflag, wavy, weird, whimsy, wow.

Examples of Specific Styles

Banner 3D

Copyfiglet -f banner3-D "3D TEXT"

Cyber Large

Copyfiglet -f cyberlarge "CYBER"

Doom

Copyfiglet -f doom "DOOM"

Epic

Copyfiglet -f epic "EPIC"

Speed

Copyfiglet -f speed "FAST"