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ASCII Text Art

Renders text as large ASCII letters through a real FIGfont renderer, with two bundled fonts and a slot for a .flf of your own.

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The site’s own 5×5 bitmap alphabet, converted to a FIGfont with a hardblank separator and fitting layout. Drawn for this repository (see font.ts); same licence as the rest of the source.

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30 columns wide.

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Parsed here in the tab. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is kept after you leave the page.

For 한글, 漢字 or any other script, use the Hangul banner tool — it draws the string to a canvas in the system font instead of looking it up in a table, so it covers every script the browser can render.
Two fonts ship with this page and both are generated from this repository’s own 5 × 5 alphabet. That is a licensing decision, not a size one: FIGfonts have circulated since 1991 in packs and mirrors, a large fraction carry no licence at all, and the provenance of a given file usually cannot be established. Rather than ship a pile of files and hope, this page ships what it can name and lets you load your own.
The format is documented and short: a header line, some comment lines, then each character as a run of rows with an end-mark stripped off the right. The clever part is the hardblank — a character declared in the header that means “nothing is drawn here, but do not slide the next letter into it”, replaced by a real space at the very last step. Forget that step and every banner comes out full of dollar signs.

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