How to Create Banners in Unix

Let’s see how we can get banners in Unix using figlet.

$ sudo apt-get install figlet
figlet Predictive Hacks

 ____               _ _      _   _             _   _            _
|  _ \ _ __ ___  __| (_) ___| |_(_)_   _____  | | | | __ _  ___| | _____
| |_) | '__/ _ \/ _` | |/ __| __| \ \ / / _ \ | |_| |/ _` |/ __| |/ / __|
|  __/| | |  __/ (_| | | (__| |_| |\ V /  __/ |  _  | (_| | (__|   <\__ \
|_|   |_|  \___|\__,_|_|\___|\__|_| \_/ \___| |_| |_|\__,_|\___|_|\_\___/

You can play with the -f options for different fonts. Like:

figlet -f slant Predictive Hacks

    ____                ___      __  _               __  __           __
   / __ \________  ____/ (_)____/ /_(_)   _____     / / / /___ ______/ /_______
  / /_/ / ___/ _ \/ __  / / ___/ __/ / | / / _ \   / /_/ / __ `/ ___/ //_/ ___/
 / ____/ /  /  __/ /_/ / / /__/ /_/ /| |/ /  __/  / __  / /_/ / /__/ ,< (__  )
/_/   /_/   \___/\__,_/_/\___/\__/_/ |___/\___/  /_/ /_/\__,_/\___/_/|_/____/