ASCII Art Generators Linux | Backtrack

Hello again guys, today I'm going to show you how to generate ASCII Art in your Linux terminal. Things like this:                 

and even more!
Today I have three programs for you, two for ASCII fonts, and one for changing pictures.

# Figlet:
The above ASCII font is generated using Figlet. To install Figlet, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install figlet

Now all you have to do is type "figlet" in the terminal, and then type whatever text you want to generate! Just like the pictur bellow:

You can type "figlet --help" in your terminal for more options!

# Toilet:
Toilet is another program with the same idea as figlet, but with more cool options!
With this one, you can generate with colors, and more fonts!
In Toilet, you can use the same fonts that are available in figlet, but in this one you can change the colors.
In this program, you can also generate your colored font in an HTML code.
To install this program, type this in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install toilet

here are some examples for the fonts, and commands:

Different fonts:

Different colors:

HTML code generator:

and here are some of fonts names:

• banner
• big
• bigmono12
• bigmono9
• block
• bubble
• circle
• future
• ivrit
• lean
• mini
• script
• shadow
• slant
• small
• smblock

# Jp2a
Jp2a is a program to change any picture that you want, to ASCII art, and it generates HTML codes as well.

To install jp2a, run the following command in your terminal:

sudo apt-get install jp2a

now to change the picture to ASCII, just enter the directory of the picture, and run this command:

jp2a Picture.jpg

and if your picture is in .PNG, you have to convert it to .JPG first to change to ASCII. to convert run this command:

convert Picture.PNG Converted-Pictrue.JPG

Now just have fun!

if you want to generate an HTML code, run the following command:

jp2a --html Picture.jpg

Thats it guys :)
have fun, I hope you liked it!