Editing FIGlet (section)

{{Infobox software
| name                   = FIGlet
| logo                   =
| screenshot             =
| caption                =
| author                 = Glenn Chappell, Ian Chai
| developer              =
| released               = 1991 (as "newban") / 1993 (figlet 2.0)<ref name="history">{{cite web|url=http://www.figlet.org/figlet_history.html|title="Why does FIGlet exist?" a history of FIGlet|year=1995|first=Glen|last=Chappell|access-date=2008-04-25}}</ref>
| latest release version = 2.2.5<ref name="homepage">{{cite web|url=http://www.figlet.org|title=FIGLet home page|access-date=2012-06-18}}</ref>
| latest release date    = May 2012
| latest preview version =
| latest preview date    =
| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system       = [[Unix-like]]
| platform               = [[Cross-platform]]
| language               =
| genre                  = [[Typesetting]]
| license                = [[New BSD License|New BSD]]<ref name="license">{{cite web|url=http://www.figlet.org/figlet_history.html|title="Why does FIGlet exist?" a history of FIGlet|access-date=2011-01-15}}</ref>
| website                = {{URL|www.figlet.org}}
}}

'''FIGlet''' is a [[computer program]] that generates text [[banner]]s, in a variety of [[typeface]]s, composed of [[letter (alphabet)|letter]]s made up of conglomerations of smaller [[ASCII]] characters (see [[ASCII art]]). The name derives from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.figlet.org/faq.html|title=FIGlet FAQ|access-date=2013-09-19}}</ref>

Being [[free software]], FIGlet is commonly included as part of many [[Unix-like]] operating systems ([[Linux]],<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_20.html#SEC321|chapter=Text Fonts|title=The Linux Cookbook|first=Michael|last=Stutz|year=2001|access-date=2008-04-25|publisher=No Starch Press|isbn=1-886411-48-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/linuxcookbooktip00stut}}</ref> [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], etc.) distributions, but it has been ported to other platforms as well. The official FIGlet [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] site includes precompiled ports for the [[Acorn Archimedes|Acorn]], [[Amiga]], [[Apple II]], [[Atari ST]], [[BeOS]], [[Mac (computer)|Mac]], [[MS-DOS]], [[NeXTSTEP]], [[OS/2]], and [[Microsoft Windows]], as well as a reimplementation in [[Perl]] (Text::FIGlet<ref>[https://metacpan.org/module/Text::FIGlet Text::FIGlet]</ref>).<ref name="ftp">{{cite web|url=http://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/|title=Official FIGlet FTP site|access-date=2008-04-25}}</ref> There are third-party reimplementations of FIGlet in [[Java (programming language)|Java]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/FigletJava/|title=Figlet Java|first=Benoît|last=Rigaut|year=1996|access-date=2008-04-25|archive-date=2008-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509134946/http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/FigletJava/|url-status=dead}}</ref> (including one embedded in the JavE ASCII art editor), [[JavaScript]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://patorjk.com/software/taag/|title=TAAG|first=Pat|last=Gillespie|year=2006|access-date=2008-05-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220130116/http://patorjk.com/software/taag/|archive-date=2012-02-20|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[PHP]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phpclasses.org/phpfiglet|title=PHP Figlet|first=Lucas|last=Baltes|access-date=2008-04-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.text.html#zend.text.figlet|title=Zend Framework – Zend_Text_Figlet Component|access-date=2013-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822005633/http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.text.html#zend.text.figlet|archive-date=2012-08-22|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Python (programming language)|Python]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfiglet/|title=pyfiglet|first=Christopher|last=Jones|year=2007|access-date=2014-11-27}}</ref> and [[Go (programming language)|Go]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sampson |first1=Luke |title=GitHub - lukesampson/figlet: Figlet in Go. |url=https://github.com/lukesampson/figlet |website=Github |access-date=13 December 2018 |date=13 December 2018}}</ref> [[DuckDuckGo|DuckDuckgo]] also has their own Figlet version, to be able to use it you need to type "Figlet [text]" and you can easily [[Cut, copy, and paste|Copy & Paste]] everywhere<ref>{{Cite web |last=frostedKIVI |date=2020-03-23 |title=Duckduckgo has a built in FIGlet, how amazing is that? Possibly my favorite easter egg especially since i found it all by myself randomly |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/fnpq82/duckduckgo_has_a_built_in_figlet_how_amazing_is/?rdt=39682 |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=r/duckduckgo}}</ref>