FIGlet banners for terminals, docs, comments, SVG, and web media

ascii-banner

ascii-banner laser animation generated by ascii-banner

Generate readable terminal banners with 328 bundled fonts, ANSI colors, borders, source-code comments, vector SVG, and canned ASCII animations that export to GIF, WebP, MP4, and WebM.

ascii-banner -f Slant -c green --animate laser --duration 1.8 --fps 12 --seed 21 --loop 0 --export ascii-banner-laser.gif "ascii-banner"

Start Here

install and render
brew install nvk/tap/ascii-banner

ascii-banner -f Slant -c green --border rounded "Deploy"

pip install "ascii-banner[media]"
ascii-banner --animate matrix --seed 21 --loop 0 --export launch.gif "Launch"
output
    ____             __
   / __ \___  ____  / /___  __  __
  / / / / _ \/ __ \/ / __ \/ / / /
 / /_/ /  __/ /_/ / / /_/ / /_/ /
/_____/\___/ .___/_/\____/\__, /
          /_/             /____/

What It Does

328 fonts

Browse by tag, size, and legibility; fuzzy matching handles common typos.

Terminal styling

Named colors, hex colors, rainbow, gradients, borders, width, and justification.

Source comments

Wrap banners for Python, JS, C, CSS, HTML, SQL, shell, Rust, Go, and more.

SVG and media

Export vector SVG or animated GIF, WebP, MP4, and WebM assets for the web.

Generated Media

LLM-WIKI synthgrid animation

ascii-banner -f Slant -c green --animate synthgrid --loop 0 --export llm-wiki-synthgrid.gif "LLM-WIKI"

Bitcoin laser animation

ascii-banner -f Slant -c orange --animate laser --loop 0 --export bitcoin-laser.gif "Bitcoin"

LLM-WIKI glitch animation

ascii-banner -f Slant -c green --animate glitch --intensity 0.35 --loop 0 --export llm-wiki-glitch.gif "LLM-WIKI"

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Full Guide

The guide covers every flag, all animation effects, static examples, every bundled font, export formats, recipes, and troubleshooting.