FIGlet font

Thick FIGlet Font

Thick is a 5-row FIGlet font by Randall Ransom, 1993. It suits Discord banners, chat headers and terminal prompts.

Thick rendered in Thick
88888 8     w      8    
  8   8d8b. w .d8b 8.dP 
  8   8P Y8 8 8    88b  
  8   8   8 8 `Y8P 8 Yb 

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Samples

"Hello" in Thick
8   8       8 8       
8www8 .d88b 8 8 .d8b. 
8   8 8.dP' 8 8 8' .8 
8   8 `Y88P 8 8 `Y8P' 
Letters and digits in Thick
   db    8888P                 .d88b. .d88b 
  dPYb     dP     .d88 888P    8P  Y8 8   8 
 dPwwYb   dP      8  8  dP     8b  d8 `8w88 
dP    Yb d8888    `Y88 d888    `Y88P'     8 

Specifications

Height5 rows
Baselinerow 4
Widest character15 columns
Average width4.2 columns per character
"Hello" renders at21 columns
Font fileThick.flf (4.2 KB)

Where it works

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

About 4.2 columns per character, so a short word still fits a phone screen.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Thick.flf:

Thick by Randall Ransom 2/94

Figlet release 2.0 -- August 5, 1993

Date: 5 Mar 1994

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

5 - height of a character

4 - height of a character, not including descenders

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

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

14 - number of comment lines

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