FIGlet font

Whimsy FIGlet Font

Whimsy is a 10-row FIGlet font by Kent Nassen, 1994. It suits full-width title cards on wide screens.

Whimsy rendered in Whimsy
                d8b        d8,                                
                ?88       `8P                                 
                 88b                                          
 ?88   d8P  d8P  888888b   88b  88bd8b,d88b  .d888b,?88   d8P 
 d88  d8P' d8P'  88P `?8b  88P  88P'`?8P'?8b ?8b,   d88   88  
 ?8b ,88b ,88'  d88   88P d88  d88  d88  88P   `?8b ?8(  d88  
 `?888P'888P'  d88'   88bd88' d88' d88'  88b`?888P' `?88P'?8b 
                                                           )88
                                                          ,d8P
                                                       `?888P'

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Samples

"Hello" in Whimsy
 d8b              d8b  d8b         
 ?88              88P  88P         
  88b            d88  d88          
  888888b  d8888b888  888   d8888b 
  88P `?8bd8b_,dP?88  ?88  d8P' ?88
 d88   88P88b     88b  88b 88b  d88
d88'   88b`?888P'  88b  88b`?8888P'
Letters and digits in Whimsy
 d888b8b  d88888P      d888b8b  d88888P     
d8P' ?88     d8P'     d8P' ?88     d8P'     
88b  ,88b  d8P'       88b  ,88b  d8P'       
`?88P'`88bd88888P'    `?88P'`88bd88888P'    

Specifications

Height10 rows
Baselinerow 7
Widest character20 columns
Average width7 columns per character
"Hello" renders at35 columns
Font fileWhimsy.flf (8.4 KB)

Where it works

At 10 rows this is a display face; it needs the space and repays it.

About 7 columns per character. A five-letter word lands near 35 columns, comfortable in a README.

About this font

Taken from the credits inside Whimsy.flf:

whimsy.flf (FIGlet font)

Figlet conversion by Kent Nassen,

From: (The Mouse)

Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art

Subject: FONT: whimsy

Date: 23 Nov 1994 22:45:31 GMT

Organization: NWNEXUS, Inc. - We Make Internet Easy

Lines: 56

Message-ID: <3b0gmb$

NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com

here's something i diddled up while wasting time at work..

if anyone wants to do something like figletize it (because i have no idea

how) feel free.

i call it whimsy-- please keep the name, if you do turn it into a figlet

font. :)

-the mouse

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