FIGlet font

Bulbhead FIGlet Font

Bulbhead is a 4-row FIGlet font by Jef Poskanzer, 1993. It suits Discord banners, chat headers and terminal prompts.

Bulbhead rendered in Bulbhead
 ____  __  __  __    ____  _   _  ____    __    ____  
(  _ \(  )(  )(  )  (  _ \( )_( )( ___)  /__\  (  _ \ 
 ) _ < )(__)(  )(__  ) _ < ) _ (  )__)  /(__)\  )(_) )
(____/(______)(____)(____/(_) (_)(____)(__)(__)(____/ 

Open Bulbhead in the generator

Samples

"Hello" in Bulbhead
 _   _  ____  __    __    _____ 
( )_( )( ___)(  )  (  )  (  _  )
 ) _ (  )__)  )(__  )(__  )(_)( 
(_) (_)(____)(____)(____)(_____)
Letters and digits in Bulbhead
   __    ____      __    ____     ___   ___ 
  /__\  (_   )    /__\  (_   )   / _ \ / _ \
 /(__)\  / /_    /(__)\  / /_   ( (_) )\_  /
(__)(__)(____)  (__)(__)(____)   \___/  (_/ 

Specifications

Height4 rows
Baselinerow 4
Widest character99 columns
Average width6.4 columns per character
"Hello" renders at32 columns
Font fileBulbhead.flf (4.3 KB)

Where it works

At 4 rows it reads as a banner without taking over the message it sits in.

About 6.4 columns per character. A five-letter word lands near 32 columns, comfortable in a README.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Bulbhead.flf:

Bulbhead by Jef Poskanzer, 23jun94

Figlet release 2.0 -- August 5, 1993

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

) _ < )(__)( )(__ ) _ < ) _ ( )___) /(__)\ )(_) )

(____/(______)(____)(____/(_) (_)(____)(__)(__)(____/

Update February 12, 2002 by Markus Gebhard

Added german umlauts

Explanation of first line:

flf2 - "magic number" for file identification

a - should always be `a', for now

$ - the "hardblank" -- prints as a blank, but can't be smushed

4 - height of a character

4 - height of a character, not including descenders

99 - max line length (excluding comment lines) + a fudge factor

0 - default smushmode for this font (like "-m 0" on command line)

13 - number of comment lines

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