Filed under: Terminal Tips, Widget Watch
Widget Watch: Mac ASCII Text with Figlet
Continuing on with what has turned into ASCII Sunday here at TUAW, a comment from Micah Cooper led me to FIGlet, which has been around roughly since the dinosaurs roamed the earth. It allows you to to create large ASCII-based text using various fonts and styles. After Micah reminded me about it, I Googled around and found a Dashboard widget based on the venerable Figlet (not to be confused with the venerable Bede or my personal iPod, which is also named Figlet).
You can download Figlet Widget (say that 5 times fast) from Apple's Dashboard widget site. It allows you to enter text and choose from 18 different text-based styles. You can then cut the text art from the results field, paste it into your favorite email program and annoy all your friends. Who could ask for more?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Phillip Platz said 6:07PM on 5-20-2007
First?!
It must be ASCII day!
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G-UNIT said 6:26PM on 5-20-2007
Holly Crap!
Today is a ASCII Day! :-)
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DeMarko said 11:49PM on 5-20-2007
does this also install the UNIX util? That's really all you need, then you can just figlet in your terminal (which should be open anyway)
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Callandor64 said 5:54AM on 5-21-2007
sudo fink install figlet
Job done :D
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