figlet.js

oooh, this is timely. I'm working on a blogging service where you can set ASCII art as its home page header at https://lmno.lol I was delited to find a figlet js port at https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js, which I use to generate default headers for new blogs. You can see it on my blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro or new ones like https://lmno.lol/ivyink and https://lmno.lol/stormsprite. Looking forward to playing with silhouettify and other suggestions in comments.

I have a popular web based ascii text generator (https://patorjk.com/software/taag), it uses FIGlet driver that I wrote (https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js/). Many of the other ones out there also use their own drivers (I've seen some written in php and python). There are also different types of ASCII text fonts out there other than FIGlet (ex: my app compiles fonts that were made in the AOL days in the Arial font - which is interesting because it's a non-monospaced font). FIGlet is the most popular spec for these types of fonts though (it's an app and a spec). The mailing list hasn't been active in a decade, but people used to submit fonts there. It was cool to see what people made.

There appears to be at least two ECMAScript implementations that are compatible with the FIGlet font specification: https://github.com/scottgonzalez/figlet-js https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js