FIGlet font

Speed FIGlet Font

Speed is a 6-row FIGlet font by Claude Martins, 1994. It suits Discord banners, chat headers and terminal prompts.

Speed rendered in Speed

Open Speed in the generator

Samples

"Hello" in Speed
Letters and digits in Speed

Specifications

Height6 rows
Baselinerow 5
Widest character16 columns
Average width6.2 columns per character
"Hello" renders at31 columns
Font fileSpeed.flf (12.7 KB)
Derived fromSlant

Where it works

At 6 rows it reads as a banner without taking over the message it sits in.

About 6.2 columns per character. A five-letter word lands near 31 columns, comfortable in a README.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Speed.flf:

Speed by Claude Martins 2/95 -- based on Slant

Includes ISO Latin-1

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

6 - height of a character

5 - 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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