FIGlet font

Doom FIGlet Font

Doom is a 8-row FIGlet font by Frans P, 1994. It suits README headers and terminal splash screens.

Doom rendered in Doom

Open Doom in the generator

Samples

"Hello" in Doom
Letters and digits in Doom

Specifications

Height8 rows
Baselinerow 6
Widest character14 columns
Average width4.4 columns per character
"Hello" renders at22 columns
Font fileDoom.flf (7.4 KB)
Derived fromBig

Where it works

At 8 rows it has room for real letterforms, which is what makes a header look deliberate.

About 4.4 columns per character, so a short word still fits a phone screen.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Doom.flf:

DOOM by Frans P. de Vries 18 Jun 1996

based on Big by Glenn Chappell 4/93 -- based on Standard

figlet release 2.1 -- 12 Aug 1994

Permission is hereby given to modify this font, as long as the

modifier's name is placed on a comment line.

Explanation of first line:

flf2 - "magic number" for file identification

a - should always be `a', for now

$ - the "hardblank" -- prints as a blank, but can't be smushed

8 - height of a character

6 - height of a character, not including descenders

14 - max line length (excluding comment lines) + a fudge factor

15 - default smushmode for this font

16 - number of comment lines

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