1. What Is pyfiglet
pyfiglet is an ASCII art text generation tool implemented in Python. It can generate graphics like the following from a string:
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| _ _ _ _ _ _
| |__ ___| | | ___ __ _____ _ __| | __| | |
| '_ \ / _ \ | |/ _ \ \ \ /\ / / _ \| '__| |/ _` | |
| | | | __/ | | (_) | \ V V / (_) | | | | (_| |_|
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___( ) \_/\_/ \___/|_| |_|\__,_(_)
|/
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When writing CLI tools, you can use pyfiglet to generate a Banner to display on the command line.
2. Installation
In a Python environment, install with pip:
3. Demo Usage
First take a look at the help documentation:
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| pyfiglet --help
Usage: pyfiglet [options] [text..]
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: standard)
-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
-l, --list_fonts show installed fonts list
-i, --info_font show font's information, use with -f FONT
-L LOAD, --load=LOAD load and install the specified font definition
-c COLOR, --color=COLOR
prints text with passed foreground color,
--color=foreground:background
--color=:background # only background
--color=foreground | foreground: # only foreground
--color=list # list all colors
COLOR = list[COLOR] | [0-255];[0-255];[0-255] (RGB)
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Now let’s try these parameters directly:
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| pyfiglet Kube
_ __ _
| |/ / _| |__ ___
| ' / | | | '_ \ / _ \
| . \ |_| | |_) | __/
|_|\_\__,_|_.__/ \___|
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| pyfiglet Kube -j center
_ __ _
| |/ / _| |__ ___
| ' / | | | '_ \ / _ \
| . \ |_| | |_) | __/
|_|\_\__,_|_.__/ \___|
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Fonts can be found at http://www.figlet.org/fontdb.cgi.
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| pyfiglet -f isometric3 Kube
___ ___ ___
/__/| /__/\ _____ / /\
| |:| \ \:\ / /::\ / /:/_
| |:| \ \:\ / /:/\:\ / /:/ /\
__| |:| ___ \ \:\ / /:/~/::\ / /:/ /:/_
/__/\_|:|____ /__/\ \__\:\ /__/:/ /:/\:| /__/:/ /:/ /\
\ \:\/:::::/ \ \:\ / /:/ \ \:\/:/~/:/ \ \:\/:/ /:/
\ \::/~~~~ \ \:\ /:/ \ \::/ /:/ \ \::/ /:/
\ \:\ \ \:\/:/ \ \:\/:/ \ \:\/:/
\ \:\ \ \::/ \ \::/ \ \::/
\__\/ \__\/ \__\/ \__\/
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| pyfiglet -f isometric3 -c BLUE Kube
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| pyfiglet -f isometric3 -c RED Kube
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In addition, you can also render fonts in Python code via from pyfiglet import Figlet.
