FIGlet font Block font
A five-row font that stacks _| pieces upright. It looks like neatly laid bricks and gives logos and titles a solid feel.
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Copies the text as is. In Notepad, choose a monospaced font such as Consolas and turn off word wrap.
A–Z specimen
Uppercase
Lowercase
Digits
About the Block font
Glenn Chappell made Block in 1993 as an upright version of Lean. Its strokes are stacked from _| pieces, so letters look like neatly laid bricks. It is five rows tall, and “HELLO” takes 48 columns, which makes it fairly wide.
It uses only keyboard characters, so it keeps its shape in terminals and code comments. Because it is wide, use it for names or words of two to five letters, and choose “Image” when sending it to a phone.
Works well for
CLI tool and terminal welcome logos, GitHub README logos, and short project names.
Font facts
- Height
- 5 lines
- “HELLO” width
- 48 columns
- Average letter width
- 10.7 columns
- Lowercase
- Yes
- Digits
- Yes
- Narrow screens
- Better on wide screens
- Made by
- Glenn Chappell
- Year
- 1993
- Based on
- Lean
- Terms of use
- Ships with the official FIGlet distribution under the BSD-3-Clause license.
Frequently asked questions
How tall is the Block font?
Banners in Block are 5 lines tall. “HELLO” comes out 48 columns wide, and each letter takes about 10.7 columns on average. For phone chats, compare it with narrow fonts such as Small or Mini.
Does Block support Korean?
FIGlet fonts have no Korean letters, so Block cannot draw Hangul. Use the Korean ASCII art tool for Korean text.
Where does a Block banner stay aligned?
Anywhere that shows text in a monospaced font. On Discord, Telegram, and GitHub, wrap it in a ``` code block (choose “Discord · Telegram” under “Paste into” to copy it that way); in chat apps with proportional fonts, choose “Image” to send a picture.
Can I use Block banners commercially?
Block ships with the official FIGlet distribution under the BSD-3-Clause license. Rights to the words in your banner, such as company names or trademarks, still need to be checked separately.
Compare other fonts
Related guides
Adding a banner to a README
Put it in a Markdown code block and keep it under 80 columns.Read →Choosing a FIGlet font
Check the width you have first, then decide between ASCII-only and block-character fonts.Read →A banner for your terminal
Use a quoted heredoc or a file so backslashes survive, and print only in interactive shells so scp keeps working.Read →
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