Convert text into large ASCII art banners using various font styles rendered in monospace characters.
Type a word or sentence, choose a style, and the tool returns it enlarged into a tall banner built from repeated characters: an H becomes a five-column stack of hashes, and a whole phrase becomes one wide block of art. This is the classic banner format of the figlet tradition, recreated in the browser. The output is plain text, and it only holds its shape in a monospace font. The common surprise: paste a banner into a proportional-font message field and the columns slide apart. Many styles also render lowercase as capitals.
A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.
Input
H
Expected output
# # # # ##### # # # # # #
In the block-style font, every letter is a grid six rows tall and five columns wide, drawn in hash characters. H puts ink at columns 1 and 5 on every row with a full crossbar on row 3, which reads as two vertical bars joined by one horizontal bar. Choose a different style and the same letter is redrawn with different characters and shapes.
Each letter maps to a small grid of ink cells and blank cells, a few characters wide and usually six rows tall. The tool draws one grid per input character, side by side, so the banner is as wide as the text times the cell width and always the same height. A style is a different set of grids; the fixed height keeps every letter aligned in columns.
Every cell in every grid must occupy the same width for the columns to stay straight, so the tool shows its result in a monospace face and the output assumes one. Spaces are not empty gaps; they are cells that hold the shape together. Copy the banner somewhere proportional and it falls apart. Keep it in a code block, a terminal, or a file opened with a monospace editor.
Almost certainly the receiving field uses a proportional font, where each character has a different width, so the columns no longer line up. Put the banner in a code block, a terminal, or a file opened with a monospace editor. Some platforms also strip trailing spaces, which erodes the right edge of letters.
No. This tool renders typed text as typographic banners; it does not convert images into character-based pictures. Banners are built from letter grids, not from pixels, so shapes come out geometric rather than pictorial. For a photograph or logo recreated in characters you need an image-to-ASCII converter, which is a different kind of tool.
The example and behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.
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