Fun with Figlet

The "figlet" application is a cool command line program that generates  text-art output.

Here are some examples:

$ figlet "Blair Kennedy:
 ____  _       _        _  __                         _       
| __ )| | __ _(_)_ __  | |/ /___ _ __  _ __   ___  __| |_   _ 
|  _ \| |/ _` | | '__| | ' // _ \ '_ \| '_ \ / _ \/ _` | | | |
| |_) | | (_| | | |    | . \  __/ | | | | | |  __/ (_| | |_| |
|____/|_|\__,_|_|_|    |_|\_\___|_| |_|_| |_|\___|\__,_|\__, |
                                                        |___/ 

$ figlet -f script "Blair Kennedy"
 , __  _                    ,                                         
/|/  \| |       o          /|   /                            |        
 | __/| |  __,      ,_      |__/   _   _  _    _  _    _   __|        
 |   \|/  /  |  |  /  |     | \   |/  / |/ |  / |/ |  |/  /  |  |   | 
 |(__/|__/\_/|_/|_/   |_/   |  \_/|__/  |  |_/  |  |_/|__/\_/|_/ \_/|/
                                                                   /| 
                                                                   \| 

It is available from the package manager in various Linux distributions.  In Ubuntu, apt is an easy way to install it.

$ sudo apt-get install figlet