FIGlet font

Doom FIGlet Font

Doom is a 8-row FIGlet font by Frans P, 1994. It suits README headers and terminal splash screens.

Doom rendered in Doom
______                      
|  _  \                     
| | | |___   ___  _ __ ___  
| | | / _ \ / _ \| '_ ` _ \ 
| |/ / (_) | (_) | | | | | |
|___/ \___/ \___/|_| |_| |_|

Open Doom in the generator

Samples

"Hello" in Doom
 _   _      _ _       
| | | |    | | |      
| |_| | ___| | | ___  
|  _  |/ _ \ | |/ _ \ 
| | | |  __/ | | (_) |
\_| |_/\___|_|_|\___/ 
Letters and digits in Doom
  ___   ______              _____  _____ 
 / _ \ |___  /             |  _  ||  _  |
/ /_\ \   / /    __ _ ____ | |/' || |_| |
|  _  |  / /    / _` |_  / |  /| |\____ |
| | | |./ /___ | (_| |/ /  \ |_/ /.___/ /
\_| |_/\_____/  \__,_/___|  \___/ \____/ 

Specifications

Height8 rows
Baselinerow 6
Widest character14 columns
Average width4.4 columns per character
"Hello" renders at22 columns
Font fileDoom.flf (7.4 KB)
Derived fromBig

Where it works

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

About 4.4 columns per character, so a short word still fits a phone screen.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Doom.flf:

DOOM by Frans P. de Vries 18 Jun 1996

based on Big by Glenn Chappell 4/93 -- based on Standard

figlet release 2.1 -- 12 Aug 1994

Permission is hereby given to modify this font, as long as the

modifier's name is placed on a comment line.

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

8 - height of a character

6 - height of a character, not including descenders

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

15 - default smushmode for this font

16 - number of comment lines

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