FIGlet font

Speed FIGlet Font

Speed is a 6-row FIGlet font by Claude Martins, 1994. It suits Discord banners, chat headers and terminal prompts.

Speed rendered in Speed
________                 _________
__  ___/_______________________  /
_____ \___  __ \  _ \  _ \  __  / 
____/ /__  /_/ /  __/  __/ /_/ /  
/____/ _  .___/\___/\___/\__,_/   
       /_/                        

Open Speed in the generator

Samples

"Hello" in Speed
______  __    ___________      
___  / / /_______  /__  /_____ 
__  /_/ /_  _ \_  /__  /_  __ \
_  __  / /  __/  / _  / / /_/ /
/_/ /_/  \___//_/  /_/  \____/ 
Letters and digits in Speed
_____________                        ______________ 
___    |__  /     ______ ______      __  __ \_  __ \
__  /| |_  /      _  __ `/__  /      _  / / /  /_/ /
_  ___ |  /__     / /_/ /__  /_      / /_/ /_\__, / 
/_/  |_/____/     \__,_/ _____/      \____/ /____/  

Specifications

Height6 rows
Baselinerow 5
Widest character16 columns
Average width6.2 columns per character
"Hello" renders at31 columns
Font fileSpeed.flf (12.7 KB)
Derived fromSlant

Where it works

At 6 rows it reads as a banner without taking over the message it sits in.

About 6.2 columns per character. A five-letter word lands near 31 columns, comfortable in a README.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Speed.flf:

Speed by Claude Martins 2/95 -- based on Slant

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.

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

6 - height of a character

5 - 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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