# ANN: FIGlet.jl

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-figlet-jl/30056
**Category:** Package Announcements
**Created:** [October 18, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-figlet-jl/30056 "2019-10-18T16:02:06Z")
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### Author: ![kdheepak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kdheepak/32/10881_2.png) [@kdheepak](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kdheepak)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-figlet-jl/30056/1 "2019-10-18T16:02:07Z")

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to announce [FIGlet.jl](https://github.com/kdheepak/FIGlet.jl). It is a Julia port of [FIGlet](http://www.figlet.org/) for rendering text in ASCII fonts.

```julia
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```

Example:

```julia
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](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/c/5c611806ecfb9915e718717e38aaa6aa49a8fa6a.png)

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

```julia
(v1.0) pkg> add FIGlet

```

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### Author: ![ssfrr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ssfrr/32/3736_2.png) [@ssfrr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ssfrr)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-figlet-jl/30056/2 "2019-10-18T16:57:24Z")

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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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### Author: ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-figlet-jl/30056/3 "2019-10-18T20:52:17Z")

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

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### Author: ![affans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/affans/32/11911_2.png) [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-figlet-jl/30056/4 "2019-10-18T21:58:06Z")

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