Cricket FIGlet Font

Cricket is a 8-row FIGlet font by Leslie Bates Jan, 1996. It suits README headers and terminal splash screens.

  _______      __      __          __   
 |   _   .----|__.----|  |--.-----|  |_ 
 |.  1___|   _|  |  __|    <|  -__|   _|
 |.  |___|__| |__|____|__|__|_____|____|
 |:  1   |                              
 |::.. . |                              
 `-------'                              

Open Cricket in the generator

Samples

  ___ ___       __ __       
 |   Y   .-----|  |  .-----.
 |.  1   |  -__|  |  |  _  |
 |.  _   |_____|__|__|_____|
 |:  |   |                  
 |::.|:. |                  
 `--- ---'                  

  _______ _______                     _______ _______ 
 |   _   |   _   |   .---.-.-----.   |   _   |   _   |
 |.  1   |___|   |   |  _  |-- __|   |.  |   |   |   |
 |.  _   |/  ___/    |___._|_____|   |.  |   |\___   |
 |:  |   |:  1  \                    |:  1   |:  1   |
 |::.|:. |::.. . |                   |::.. . |::.. . |
 `--- ---`-------'                   `-------`-------'

Specifications

Where it works

At 8 rows it has room for real letterforms, which is what makes a header look deliberate.

About 5.6 columns per character. A five-letter word lands near 28 columns, comfortable in a README.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Cricket.flf:

Cricket by Leslie Bates Jan. 1, 1996

I wish to thank Wade Fincher for the SIG that was used as a base for Cricket as

well as Chris Gill who designed the Square font, some of which was used in

Cricket. And finally I wish to thank Paul Burton, who if it was not for his

desire to create FIGWin, I may never have had the motivation to create a

FIGfont.

FIGWin is the Windows clone of FIGlet with a full featured FIGfont editor!

Forget about doing the math to figure out the smushmode number. Just check a

few boxes for each smushing rule. Forget about endmarks -- let the computer

figure out how tall and how wide your font is. Just draw FIGfonts with the

mouse and wipe the smudgemarks off your screen from all that counting!

FIGWin is full of features, but it's designed for use by a complete idiot. If

you qualify, visit the FIGWin website. Screen shots are shown, and of course

you can download it. (FREE!)

Also see the FIGlet website:

Font modified June 17, 2007 by patorjk

This was to widen the space character.

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