figurine
Dev tools
terminal eye-candy
SHOW HN2018
56points
25comments
#735of 2,155 in 2018
Top 35%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, nice eye-candy for the terminal
From 3 comments
Nice work! Would be good to add a CLI option for specifying a font.
jimpudar on HNquite funny. check lolcat if you are intrested: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
piahoo on HNThis pleasantly reminds me of faders for chat programs like AIM :)
doyoulikeworms on HN
Objections
Name is meaningless and not explained by the project; overlaps with figlet and ASCII art
From 3 comments
We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.
ktpsns on HNCool? Meaningless though
orf on HNAlso on any Linux distribution you will find figlet available from the default repositories. :) http://www.figlet.org/
andmarios on HN
Some fonts render wrong characters
From 3 comments
Occasionally this outputs F'DK'M instead of GAELAN for me. Maybe an issue with some of the fonts?
Gaelan on HNLooks like an off by one error. I'm seeing this error as well for some of the fonts.
kkwteh on HNSome fonts are broken I think.
arsham on HN
Requests
Add a CLI option to choose a font
From 2 comments
Nice work! Would be good to add a CLI option for specifying a font.
jimpudar on HNJust added a flag (-v) to print out the font. Please let me know which font is broken and I will remove it. Thanks. You can also choose a specific font if you want.
arsham on HN
Support piping text in, such as cowsay output
From 2 comments
Would like ability to pipe cow-say into it (or any random set of strings) on which it will then just add the colour effect.
hestefisk on HNYou can pipe the cow-say to this program: https://github.com/arsham/rainbow Is that what you're after?
arsham on HN
Questions
Is it faster than Ruby lolcat?
From 2 comments
figlet + lolcat = figurine I'm interested in the rainbow library (which does reference figlet https://github.com/arsham/rainbow/blob/master/README.md#see-also), but only to see…
web007 on HNWell, the name came out of nowhere (sorry!). As for comparison with ruby, all I can say is figurine is a single binary, whereas ruby's lolcat requires ruby's VM. There are a…
arsham on HN
Alternatives named
figlet
From 2 comments
We called this ASCII art and figlet when we were young. These keywords appear nowhere in the Git repository.
ktpsns on HNAlso on any Linux distribution you will find figlet available from the default repositories. :) http://www.figlet.org/
andmarios on HN
lolcat
From 2 comments
quite funny. check lolcat if you are intrested: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
piahoo on HNfiglet + lolcat = figurine I'm interested in the rainbow library (which does reference figlet https://github.com/arsham/rainbow/blob/master/README.md#see-also), but only to see…
web007 on HN
liquidprompt and spaceship prompt
From 2 comments
I love this sort of thing. Yes, as remarked by probably everyone here over the age of 40, we have had loads of terminal shiny stuff for decades. However, here we see the…
gerdesj on HNI'd recommend spaceship prompt if you want an actively maintained prompt with similar features. https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt
aroch on HN