creating logo/lettering with dashes, underscores & other keys

[gentoobob]

Does anyone know what its called when you use dashes and underscores to create letters for a logo in in a terminal window? Or if there is a program that will do this for you other than using an editor and doing it manually.

Example:

 ______ 
/\__  _\
\/_/\ \/     
   \ \ \  
    \ \_\  
     \/_/

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Zare]

It's called ASCII art.

 

[gentoobob]

Solved

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[Beastie]

if there is a program that will do this for you

Almost. One possibility is to convert an image to a P*M format using graphics/ImageMagick's convert utility, then view (or convert to text) the resulting P*M image using graphics/aview.

 

[Deleted member 10519]

Or if there is a program that will do this for you other than using an editor and doing it manually.

There are two programs in ports for creating ASCII art text, misc/figlet and misc/toilet. Figlet can also be configured to use more fonts if you install misc/figlet-fonts.

 

[ChalkBored]

There's also games/cursive. It only does what the name implies, though.

 

[freethread]

In the past I used a program that is not in ports, probably (probably) it works if you have X and java installed. It's a gui editor that use same figlets fonts and converts images to ASCII art, jave is its name (jave.de).

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   +##################++####+
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If you need something more complex its better you draw it by hand with an text editor (complex like this)

 

[gentoobob]

Oh sweet. Thanks for the extra replies. That's really helpful.

 

[arp242]

FreeBSD comes with banner(6) installed if you selected the games set.

% echo 'Hello, world!' | banner -w 50