pyfiglet(1)

pyfiglet1

Display text in large ascii art fonts.

Usage

pyfiglet.py [options] text ...

Overview

pyFIGlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters. It takes ASCII text (text) and renders it in ASCII art fonts.

This version of pyfiglet supports FIGlet fonts .flf and the FIGlet-compatible toilet-fonts .tlf.

Options

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-f FONT, --font=FONT

font to render with (default: future)

-D DIRECTION, --direction=DIRECTION

set direction text will be formatted in (default: auto)

-j SIDE, --justify=SIDE

set justification, defaults to print direction

-w COLS, --width=COLS

set terminal width for wrapping/justification (default: 80)

-r, --reverse

shows mirror image of output text

-F, --flip

flips rendered output text over

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–13

--fontdir until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --zipfile until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -d until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -z until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

From python3-pyfiglet 1.0.3+dfsg-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.