FIGlet font

Whimsy FIGlet Font

Whimsy is a 10-row FIGlet font by Kent Nassen, 1994. It suits full-width title cards on wide screens.

Whimsy rendered in Whimsy

Open Whimsy in the generator

Samples

"Hello" in Whimsy
Letters and digits in Whimsy

Specifications

Height10 rows
Baselinerow 7
Widest character20 columns
Average width7 columns per character
"Hello" renders at35 columns
Font fileWhimsy.flf (8.4 KB)

Where it works

At 10 rows this is a display face; it needs the space and repays it.

About 7 columns per character. A five-letter word lands near 35 columns, comfortable in a README.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Whimsy.flf:

whimsy.flf (FIGlet font)

Figlet conversion by Kent Nassen,

From: (The Mouse)

Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art

Subject: FONT: whimsy

Date: 23 Nov 1994 22:45:31 GMT

Organization: NWNEXUS, Inc. - We Make Internet Easy

Lines: 56

Message-ID: <3b0gmb$

NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com

here's something i diddled up while wasting time at work..

if anyone wants to do something like figletize it (because i have no idea

how) feel free.

i call it whimsy-- please keep the name, if you do turn it into a figlet

font. :)

-the mouse

Similar fonts

Closest matches by height and character width.

Jazmine

10 rows, 5.2 columns per character.

Pebbles

10 rows, 5.2 columns per character.

Roman

10 rows, 9 columns per character.

Colossal

11 rows, 7.2 columns per character.

Pawp

9 rows, 6.4 columns per character.

Browse all 133 fonts