FIGlet font

Shadow FIGlet Font

Shadow is a 5-row FIGlet font by Glenn Chappell, 1994. It suits Discord banners, chat headers and terminal prompts.

Shadow rendered in Shadow
   ___|   |                 |                  
 \___ \   __ \    _` |   _` |   _ \ \ \  \   / 
       |  | | |  (   |  (   |  (   | \ \  \ /  
 _____/  _| |_| \__,_| \__,_| \___/   \_/\_/   

Open Shadow in the generator

Samples

"Hello" in Shadow
  |   |        |  |        
  |   |   _ \  |  |   _ \  
  ___ |   __/  |  |  (   | 
 _|  _| \___| _| _| \___/  
Letters and digits in Shadow
     \    __  /                       _ \    _ \  
    _ \      /        _` | _  /      |   |  (   | 
   ___ \    /        (   |   /       |   | \__  | 
 _/    _\ ____|     \__,_| ___|     \___/    __/  

Specifications

Height5 rows
Baselinerow 4
Widest character16 columns
Average width5.2 columns per character
"Hello" renders at26 columns
Font fileShadow.flf (14.2 KB)

Where it works

At 5 rows it reads as a banner without taking over the message it sits in.

About 5.2 columns per character. A five-letter word lands near 26 columns, comfortable in a README.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Shadow.flf:

Shadow by Glenn Chappell 6/93 -- based on Standard & SmShadow

Includes ISO Latin-1

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.

Modified by Paul Burton 12/96 to include new parameter

supported by FIGlet and FIGWin. May also be slightly modified for better use

of new full-width/kern/smush alternatives, but default output is NOT changed.

Font modified June 17, 2007 by patorjk

This was to widen the space character.

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