Archive for November, 2015

Watch Star Wars as ASCII Art in a Terminal

📅 November 24, 2015
sw01From 20th Century Text comes…Star Wars in your Linux terminal!

Have nothing better to do? Do you enjoy ASCII art?

If you answered “Yes!” (with or without an exclamation mark) to either of those questions, then you might want to try out this novel ASCII art creation that plays Star Wars Episode IV in a terminal.

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Colored Text with toilet

📅 November 13, 2015
toilet01If you enjoy using figlet to produce fancy text within a terminal, then why not give toilet a try?

Not only is toilet compatible with figlet’s fonts, but basic filters can be applied that color the text, add a border, and flip and flop without the need for Imagemagick.

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