ASCII Banner

Turn any text into a large ASCII-art banner. Choose one of the included figlet fonts, preview the result instantly, compare it across every font at once, and download it as a plain text file. It works on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

How to Use the ASCII Banner

Type your text - enter any words into the text field; the banner updates as you type.
Pick a font - select one of the 59 built-in figlet fonts, grouped by style:

Classic (13):
- Standard - the classic figlet look.
- Big - large, wide block letters.
- Small - compact letters for short banners.
- Banner - bold, chunky lettering.
- Shadow - letters with a light drop shadow.
- Block - uniform, boxy letters.
- Term - retains the plain terminal look.
- Mini - tiny, space-saving letters.
- SM Shadow - compact letters with a shadow.
- Computer - clean, blocky typewriter face.
- Roman - classic serif capitals.
- Straight - plain vertical blocks.
- Univers - clean Swiss sans-serif.
Italic & Slanted (5):
- Slant - italic style, leaning to the right.
- Lean - letters tilted to the left.
- SM Slant - compact italic letters.
- Speed - letters with speed lines.
- Ticks - letters made of tick marks.
Script & Handwriting (8):
- Script - cursive, handwritten-style letters.
- SM Script - smaller cursive letters.
- Contessa - curvaceous, flowing letters.
- Graffiti - spray-painted look.
- Nancyj - friendly handwriting.
- Nancyj Fancy - decorative handwritten letters.
- Nancyj Underlined - handwritten letters with underlines.
- Ivrit - Hebrew-style letters.
3-D & Depth (9):
- Banner3 - chunky three-dimensional banners.
- Banner3-D - extruded three-dimensional banners.
- Banner4 - wide three-dimensional banners.
- Bigchief - tall letters with decorative tops.
- Chiseled - carved-stone look.
- Colossal - very large, rounded letters.
- Isometric 1 - three-dimensional optical illusion.
- Sub-Zero - cool, straight-edged capital and small letters.
- Three-D - extruded three-dimensional letters.
Pixel & Digital (5):
- Digital - modern, grid-like digits and letters.
- LCD - liquid crystal display segments.
- Dot Matrix - pixel matrix readout.
- O8 - wide, retro rounded face.
- OS2 - tall, retro rounded face.
Decorative & Display (11):
- Broadway - theatre marquee style.
- Bubble - rounded, bubble-style letters.
- Doom - heavy, dramatic block letters.
- Epic - tall, condensed letters.
- Fraktur - gothic blackletter.
- Ghost - hollow, double-outlined letters.
- Gothic - medieval-style letters.
- Hollywood - classic movie-poster letters.
- Poison - spiky, aggressive letters.
- Rounded - soft-cornered letters.
- Varsity - collegiate block letters.
Novelty & Themed (8):
- Fender - letters with horizontal stripes.
- Marquee - light-bulb theatre sign.
- Mirror - mirrored (backwards) letters.
- Star Wars - angled sci-fi lettering.
- Train - railroad lettering.
- Trek - space-age lettering.
- Twisted - tangled, interwoven letters.
- Wavy - undulating, wavy lines.
Add a tagline - toggle Include tagline and type a short plain-text subtitle (for example a company name, product, or version). It appears as a caption line directly below the banner and is included when you copy or download.
Show all fonts - press Show all fonts to render the current text with every font at once. The result is grouped by style and each block has its own small Copy and Download buttons. Press Hide all fonts to close it again (opening it again re-renders with the current text).
Download - press Download banner.txt to save the rendered banner as a text file (for example, to use as a startup banner).
Copy - press Copy to put the banner on your clipboard.

Example

Type Hello with the Standard font to get:

 _   _      _ _       
| | | | ___| | | ___  
| |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \ 
|  _  |  __/ | | (_) |
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___/

Using the Banner in a Spring Boot App

A Spring Boot application prints an ASCII-art banner to the console when it starts up. By default it shows the Spring Boot version banner, but you can replace it with your own text (for example a company name, product name, or version).

How to set it up

Create the banner - type your text in the form above, pick a font, and press Download banner.txt.
Place the file - put the downloaded banner.txt into your Spring Boot project's src/main/resources/ directory. If your project already has a banner.txt there, replace its content with the freshly generated banner. This project, for instance, ships its own startup banner at src/main/resources/banner.txt.
Make sure the banner is printed - Spring Boot shows the text banner by default. If logging is configured (for example with a log file), the banner is turned off automatically, so force it on in src/main/resources/application.properties:
```
spring.main.banner-mode=console
spring.banner.charset=UTF-8
```
Run your app - the ASCII banner is printed to the console at startup.

Tips

When you download the banner, save the file as UTF-8 so special characters from fonts such as Block display correctly.
The default location is the classpath root (banner.txt). If you want to keep the banner somewhere else, point to it explicitly: spring.banner.location=classpath:config/banner.txt.
A wide banner is fine - it never breaks your app. At most it wraps across several console lines.

Why Use This Banner Tool?

Free to use
59 figlet fonts (Core and community-contributed) built in, grouped by style
Instant preview while you type
Show all fonts at once to compare styles side by side
Download as a plain text file
Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile
No registration or installation required