Tinker-Toy FIGlet Font

Tinker-Toy is a 7-row FIGlet font by Wendell Hicken. It suits README headers and terminal splash screens.

o-O-o        o                o-O-o          
  |   o      | /                |            
  |     o-o  OO   o-o o-o o-o   |   o-o o  o 
  |   | |  | | \  |-' |         |   | | |  | 
  o   | o  o o  o o-o o         o   o-o o--O 
                                           | 
                                        o--o 

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Samples

o  o     o o     
|  |     | |     
O--O o-o | | o-o 
|  | |-' | | | | 
o  o o-o o o o-o 

  O  o---o                  o-o   o-o  
 / \    /                  o  /o |   o 
o---o -O-       oo o-o     | / |  o--O 
|   | /        | |  /      o/  o    /  
o   oo---o     o-o-o-o      o-o    o   

Specifications

Where it works

At 7 rows it has room for real letterforms, which is what makes a header look deliberate.

About 3.2 columns per character, so a short word still fits a phone screen.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Tinker-Toy.flf:

Tinker-toy by Wendell Hicken 11/93 ()

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

7 - height of a character

5 - height of a character, not including descenders

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

15 - default smushmode for this font (like "-m 15" on command line)

12 - number of comment lines

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