If you’re now on an ASCII kick try busting out your favorite flick in the absolutely hilarious VLC video-to-ASCII player. Is this the most useful thing in the world? Well no, but it’s fun. Just copy and paste the output where you want it to appear, a perfect solution for those wanting to get their email signatures looking like they’re coming from 1994. Not into the command line? Create ASCII art banners on the webįor those who aren’t comfortable digging around the command line, or who don’t want to have large vertical banners, you can always use a web-based ASCII art generator found here, there’s even a variety of font options if you feel like customizing things a bit further. You can also choose to manually rotate the text yourself in third party applications, but the banner command in OS X doesn’t print horizontally. But by reducing the overall width, you’ll also reduce the quality of the ASCII art, so if you want things to be sharp keep the larger size and then manually reduce the font size of the output yourself, either in Terminal or with an app like TextEdit. This will output the banner text at a much more reasonable 20 character width. You can replace ‘’ with your own message text, but the example given will print ‘’ as an enormous vertical ASCII banner, so just use it like this:ĭue to it’s enormous default size (132 characters wide) the output is perhaps only appropriate for printing, so to reduce the size of the banner text just specify a width with the -w flag like so: At it’s most simple, you can use it like so: ASCII art, which has been around since the 1960s when computers were run by keypunched cards, is art created entirely out of text. You’ll find that using banner is very simple, just feed it some text you want to turn into an ASCII banner and it does the hard work for you. To try the ASCII art building banner command yourself, launch the Terminal app from the /Applications/Utilities folder and follow along.
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