FIGlet font Digital font
A three-row font that puts each character in its own +-+ box. It is the narrowest of the 12, so it fits phone chats easily.
+-+-+-+-+-+ |H|e|l|l|o| +-+-+-+-+-+
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 Digital font
Glenn Chappell made Digital in 1994 from the Bubble font. Instead of drawing new letter shapes, it places each character between | | and closes it with +-+ above and below, like a display board or keyboard keys.
It is three rows tall, and “HELLO” takes only 11 columns, the shortest of the 12. Digits and symbols go into boxes as well, which makes it handy for dates and scores. The browser version of the font that lab.ascii uses has broken Latin extended characters such as Ä and é, so those characters are reported instead of drawn.
Works well for
Phone chats, decorating dates and scores, and short names.
Font facts
- Height
- 3 lines
- “HELLO” width
- 11 columns
- Average letter width
- 2.0 columns
- Lowercase
- Yes
- Digits
- Yes
- Narrow screens
- Recommended
- Made by
- Glenn Chappell
- Year
- 1994
- Based on
- Bubble
- Terms of use
- Ships with the official FIGlet distribution under the BSD-3-Clause license.
Frequently asked questions
How tall is the Digital font?
Banners in Digital are 3 lines tall. “HELLO” comes out 11 columns wide, and each letter takes about 2.0 columns on average. It is narrow enough for phone chats.
Does Digital support Korean?
FIGlet fonts have no Korean letters, so Digital cannot draw Hangul. Use the Korean ASCII art tool for Korean text.
Where does a Digital 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 Digital banners commercially?
Digital 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.
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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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