FIGlet font Mini font
A tiny three-line font. It is narrow enough for chat windows and short messages.
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A–Z specimen
Uppercase
Lowercase
Digits
About the Mini font
Glenn Chappell made Mini in 1993. Each letter is three lines tall and about four columns wide, so “HELLO” takes only 16 columns and rarely wraps in a phone chat bubble.
Its small size keeps the shapes simple, so it suits short greetings and names more than long sentences. From a distance it even looks a little like handwriting.
Works well for
Phone chats, short messages, greetings, and names.
Font facts
- Height
- 3 lines
- “HELLO” width
- 16 columns
- Average letter width
- 3.9 columns
- Lowercase
- Yes
- Digits
- Yes
- Narrow screens
- Recommended
- Made by
- Glenn Chappell
- Year
- 1993
- Terms of use
- Ships with the official FIGlet distribution under the BSD-3-Clause license.
Frequently asked questions
How tall is the Mini font?
Banners in Mini are 3 lines tall. “HELLO” comes out 16 columns wide, and each letter takes about 3.9 columns on average. It is narrow enough for phone chats.
Does Mini support Korean?
FIGlet fonts have no Korean letters, so Mini cannot draw Hangul. Use the Korean ASCII art tool for Korean text.
Where does a Mini banner stay aligned?
Anywhere that shows text in a monospaced font. On Discord and GitHub, wrap it in a ``` code block; in chat apps with proportional fonts, save a PNG and send the image.
Can I use Mini banners commercially?
Mini 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
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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 →
Try another tool
Text banner
Turn English text into large banners in 12 FIGlet fonts and compare them at a glance.Open →Korean ASCII art
Draw Korean (Hangul) names and phrases with █ ░ # @ characters. Most generators cannot handle Korean.Open →Image to ASCII
Upload a photo and tune width, brightness, contrast, and the character set. Save it as a colored PNG.Open →Text art
Copy cats, hearts, birthday cakes, and kaomoji with one click, or save them as PNG images.Open →Fancy text
Turn English text into 24 Unicode styles such as script, bold, and Fraktur, and wrap any text in symbols.Open →