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title: Install FIGlet on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of FIGlet for Linux - A program for making large
  letters out of ordinary text
url: https://snapcraft.io/figlet
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# FIGlet

[Claudio Matsuoka (cmatsuoka)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/cmatsuoka "View all snaps from Claudio Matsuoka (cmatsuoka)")

* [Claudio Matsuoka (cmatsuoka)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/cmatsuoka "View all snaps from Claudio Matsuoka (cmatsuoka)")
* [Utilities](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=utilities)

latest/stable 2.2.5+git24.202a0a8

Install latest/stable of FIGlet

This channel hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install figlet
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* figlet

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### License

* BSD-3-Clause

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### Last updated

* 12 May 2020 - latest/stable
* 12 May 2020 - latest/beta

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [www.figlet.org](http://www.figlet.org "http://www.figlet.org")

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### Contact

* [cmatsuoka+snapstore@gmail.com](mailto:cmatsuoka+snapstore@gmail.com "mailto:cmatsuoka+snapstore@gmail.com")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/figlet#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/figlet#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/figlet#tab-security)

#### A program for making large letters out of ordinary text

FIGlet (Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters) is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters. It can print in a variety of fonts, both left-to-right and right-to-left, with adjacent characters kerned and "smushed" together in various ways. FIGlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the end of e-mail, Usenet and MOTD messages.

More fonts can be downloaded from the JavE FIGlet fonts library: <http://www.jave.de/figlet/fonts/overview.html>

Commonly used command line options are:

* **-f *fontfile***: Select the font. The .flf suffix may be left off of fontfile.
* **-d *fontdirectory***: Change the default font directory. FIGlet looks for fonts first in the default directory and then in the current directory.
* **-c**, **-l**, **-r**, **-x**: These options handle the justification of FIGlet output. **-c** centers the output horizontally. **-l** makes the output flush-left. **-r** makes it flush-right. **-x** (default) sets the justification according to whether left-to-right or right-to-left text is selected.
* **-t**, **-w *outputwidth***: These options control the output width. Normally, FIGlet assumes 80 columns. **-t** sets the output width to the terminal width.
* **-p**, **-n**: These options control how FIGlet handles newlines. **-p** puts FIGlet into paragraph mode, which eliminates some unnecessary line breaks. **-n** (default) puts FIGlet back to normal, in which every newline FIGlet reads causes it to produce a line break.
* **-s**, **-S**, **-k**, **-W**, **-o**: These options control how FIGlet spaces characters. **-s** (default) and **-S** cause "smushing" (characters are displayed as close together as possible), **-k** causes "kerning" (as many blanks as possible are removed between characters), **-W** makes FIGlet display all characters in full width, which may be fixed or variable, depending on the font. The difference between **-s** and **-S** is that **-s** will not smush a font whose author specified kerning or full width as the default layoutmode, whereas **-S** will attempt to do so.

See the complete list of command line options in the developer website.

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## Install FIGlet on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/ubuntu)

[### Raspberry Pi](https://snapcraft.io/install/figlet/raspbian)