ASCII art banner
Turn short text into a block-letter ASCII banner, on your device.
Runs on your device. The file is never uploaded.
ASCII art banner renders up to 40 typed characters as five rows of 5 by 5 cells, filled cells written with a hash. text defaults to HELLO. Glyphs sit one space apart and trailing spaces are trimmed. Only A to Z, 0 to 9 and space have shapes, so everything else prints as a blank block.
Questions
Which characters can it render?
A to Z, the digits 0 to 9, and the space. Lower-case input is upper-cased first, so case does not matter. Every other character, punctuation included, renders as a blank block of the same size rather than failing, so your banner keeps its spacing where an unsupported character was.
How long can the text be?
Up to 40 characters, and at least 1. The default is HELLO. Each glyph is 5 characters wide with a single space between glyphs, so 40 characters produces a banner about 239 characters wide, which will wrap in most terminals. Keep it short if the result has to fit on one line.
Can I choose a different font?
No. There is one built-in font: fixed 5 by 5 block glyphs, drawn with the hash character on a background of spaces. There is no proportional font, no outline style and no size setting. A tool with a FIGlet font library would be a different tool, not an option on this one.
What does the output look like exactly?
Five lines of text. Each glyph contributes one 5-character row per line, glyphs are joined with a single space column, and trailing spaces at the end of each row are trimmed. Filled cells are the hash character and empty cells are spaces, so it pastes into a code comment, a terminal banner or a README as it is.
Does it take a file?
No. You type the text into the text option on the page and the banner comes back as plain text; there is nothing to drop and nothing to upload. That also means there is no batch mode, so one run gives you one banner. It runs in a Web Worker in this browser tab like every other tool here, with no account and no network call.