ANN: FIGlet.jl

Package Announcements
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Hi everyone,

I wanted to announce FIGlet.jl. It is a Julia port of FIGlet for rendering text in ASCII fonts.

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Example:

julia> using FIGlet

julia> FIGlet.render("julia")
   _       _ _
  (_)_   _| (_) __ _
  | | | | | | |/ _` |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |
 _/ |\__,_|_|_|\__,_|
|__/


julia> FIGlet.availablefonts() |> length
680

julia> FIGlet.availablefonts()[1:5]
5-element Array{String,1}:
 "1943____"
 "1row"
 "3-d"
 "3D Diagonal"
 "3D-ASCII"

julia> FIGlet.render("julia", "3D-ASCII")
    ___  ___  ___  ___       ___  ________
   |\  \|\  \|\  \|\  \     |\  \|\   __  \
   \ \  \ \  \\\  \ \  \    \ \  \ \  \|\  \
 __ \ \  \ \  \\\  \ \  \    \ \  \ \   __  \
|\  \\_\  \ \  \\\  \ \  \____\ \  \ \  \ \  \
\ \________\ \_______\ \_______\ \__\ \__\ \__\
 \|________|\|_______|\|_______|\|__|\|__|\|__|

There’s 680 fonts bundled in the package, and you can probably you find more online.

FIGlet.jl
FIGlet.jl2880×1560 330 KB

If you’d like to use it in your package, you can get it by running the following:

(v1.0) pkg> add FIGlet
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This is so cool. Looks like Julia packages are about to get a bunch more fancy ASCII art.

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3

I think “flower power” is the best font I have seen in my entire life.

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I wonder how these can be integrated with UnicodePlots for special, fancy looking headers and stuff.

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