FIGlet font

Tombstone FIGlet Font

Tombstone is a 5-row FIGlet font by Paul Fahn, 1993. It suits Discord banners, chat headers and terminal prompts.

Tombstone rendered in Tombstone
 ___  _, _, _ __,  _, ___  _, _, _ __,
  |  / \ |\/| |_) (_   |  / \ |\ | |_ 
  |  \ / |  | |_) , )  |  \ / | \| |  
  ~   ~  ~  ~ ~    ~   ~   ~  ~  ~ ~~~

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Samples

"Hello" in Tombstone
 _,_ __, _,  _,   _,
 |_| |_  |   |   / \
 | | |   | , | , \ /
 ~ ~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~  ~ 
Letters and digits in Tombstone
  _, ___,    _, ___,   _   _,
 / \ ` /    /_\ ` /   / \ (_/
 |~|  /     | |  /    \ /  / 
 ~ ~ ~~~    ~ ~ ~~~    ~   ' 

Specifications

Height5 rows
Baselinerow 4
Widest character8 columns
Average width4 columns per character
"Hello" renders at20 columns
Font fileTombstone.flf (3.3 KB)

Where it works

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

About 4 columns per character, so a short word still fits a phone screen.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Tombstone.flf:

"infopowr.flf"

Based on a 12 letter font From: "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

About Today's Cryptography," v2.0 draft 2f, 9/20/93, by Paul Fahn,

copyright 1993, RSA Laboratories

Specifically, the ASCII lettering from the "DISTRIBUTION:" section:

"_ _, _ ___ _, __, _, _ _, ___ _ _, _, _ _ _, __, _, _ _ ___ __, "

| |\ | |_ / \ |_) |\/| / \ | | / \ |\ | | (_ |_) / \ | | |_ | )

| | \| | \ / | \ | | |~| | | \ / | \| | , ) | \ / |/\| | |~\

Additional characters & figlet conversion by:

Kent Nassen,, 8/16/94

Similar fonts

Closest matches by height and character width.

Small

5 rows, 3.8 columns per character.

Thick

5 rows, 4.2 columns per character.

Shadow

5 rows, 5.2 columns per character.

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