Awesome way to Create fancy linux banners using figlet

[root@rhel1 ~]# ls -ltr /usr/share/figlet|grep -i flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9697 Nov 11 2010 term.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28335 Nov 11 2010 standard.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12226 Nov 11 2010 smslant.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10832 Nov 11 2010 smshadow.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11274 Nov 11 2010 smscript.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12235 Nov 11 2010 small.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15520 Nov 11 2010 slant.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13365 Nov 11 2010 shadow.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15371 Nov 11 2010 script.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83167 Nov 11 2010 mnemonic.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9102 Nov 11 2010 mini.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28596 Nov 11 2010 lean.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10999 Nov 11 2010 ivrit.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15139 Nov 11 2010 digital.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19926 Nov 11 2010 bubble.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24438 Nov 11 2010 block.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26384 Nov 11 2010 big.flf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31897 Nov 11 2010 banner.flf
[root@rhel1 ~]

Lets use the different fonts.

a. Bubble Font

[root@rhel1 ~]# figlet -f bubble Hello UxTechno
  _   _   _   _   _     _   _   _   _   _   _   _   _
 / \ / \ / \ / \ / \   / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
( H | e | l | l | o ) ( U | x | T | e | c | h | n | o )
 \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/   \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/
[root@rhel1 ~]#

b.  Big font

[root@rhel1 ~]# figlet -f big Hello UxTechno
 _    _      _ _         _    _   _______        _
| |  | |    | | |       | |  | | |__   __|      | |
| |__| | ___| | | ___   | |  | |_  _| | ___  ___| |__  _ __   ___
|  __  |/ _ \ | |/ _ \  | |  | \ \/ / |/ _ \/ __| '_ \| '_ \ / _ \
| |  | |  __/ | | (_) | | |__| |>  <| |  __/ (__| | | | | | | (_) |
|_|  |_|\___|_|_|\___/   \____//_/\_\_|\___|\___|_| |_|_| |_|\___/


[root@rhel1 ~]#

c. Script font

[root@rhel1 ~]# figlet -f script Hello UxTechno
 ,          _   _          _             ______        _
/|   |     | | | |        (_|    |      (_) |         | |
 |___|  _  | | | |  __      |    |          | _   __  | |     _  _    __
 |   |\|/  |/  |/  /  \_    |    |  /\/   _ ||/  /    |/ \   / |/ |  /  \_
 |   |/|__/|__/|__/\__/      \__/\_/ /\_/(_/ |__/\___/|   |_/  |  |_/\__/


[root@rhel1 ~]#

d. Digital Font

[root@rhel1 ~]# figlet -f digital  Hello UxTechno
+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|H|e|l|l|o| |U|x|T|e|c|h|n|o|
+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
[root@rhel1 ~]#

Aligning the fonts

You can also align the fonts left-right or center using option below: