FIGlet font

Linux FIGlet Font

Linux is a 4-row FIGlet font by Larry Smith, 1993. It suits Discord banners, chat headers and terminal prompts.

Linux rendered in Linux

Open Linux in the generator

Samples

"Hello" in Linux
Letters and digits in Linux

Specifications

Height4 rows
Baselinerow 3
Widest character9 columns
Average width6 columns per character
"Hello" renders at30 columns
Font fileLinux.flf (3.1 KB)
Derived from.sig of Roberth Karman

Where it works

At 4 rows it reads as a banner without taking over the message it sits in.

About 6 columns per character. A five-letter word lands near 30 columns, comfortable in a README.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Linux.flf:

linux by Larry Smith 5/12/95 - based on .sig of Roberth Karman.

Figlet release 2.0 -- August 5, 1993

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

4 - height of a character

3 - height of a character, not including descenders

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

-1 - default smushmode for this font (like "-m 15" on command line)

13 - number of comment lines

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