evtool ascii-banner

ASCII art banners, signs, and headers — with 5 fonts and color options. The quickest way to add flair to your terminal output.

pip install evolver-tools && evtool ascii-banner "Hello World"

What is it?

evtool ascii-banner turns plain text into ASCII art banners using multiple built-in font styles. Unlike figlet (which needs font files), this works out of the box — pure Python, zero dependencies, fonts embedded.

Quick Start

# Default font
$ evtool ascii-banner "evolver"

██╗   ██╗███████╗██╗   ██╗ ██████╗ ██╗     ███████╗██████╗
██║   ██║██╔════╝██║   ██║██╔═══██╗██║     ██╔════╝██╔══██╗
╚██╗ ██╔╝█████╗  ██║   ██║██║   ██║██║     █████╗  ██████╔╝
 ╚████╔╝ ██╔══╝  ╚██╗ ██╔╝██║   ██║██║     ██╔══╝  ██╔══██╗
  ╚██╔╝  ███████╗ ╚████╔╝ ╚██████╔╝███████╗███████╗██║  ██║
   ╚═╝   ╚══════╝  ╚═══╝   ╚═════╝ ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝  ╚═╝

Font Styles

# Block font (default)
$ evtool ascii-banner --font block "TOOLS"
████████╗ ██████╗  ██████╗ ██╗     ███████╗
╚══██╔══╝██╔═══██╗██╔═══██╗██║     ██╔════╝
   ██║   ██║   ██║██║   ██║██║     ███████╗
   ██║   ██║   ██║██║   ██║██║     ╚════██║
   ██║   ╚██████╔╝╚██████╔╝███████╗███████║

# Simple font
$ evtool ascii-banner --font simple "hi"
  _   _   ___
 | | | | |_ _|
 | |_| |  | |
  \___/  |___|

# Slim font
$ evtool ascii-banner --font slim "CLI"
  /$$$$$$   /$$   /$$$$$$
 /$$__  $$ | $$  /$$__  $$
| $$  \ $$ | $$ | $$  \ $$
| $$  | $$ | $$ | $$  | $$
|  $$$$$$/ | $$ |  $$$$$$/
 \______/  |__/  \______/

Usage Examples

Terminal welcome message

$ echo "Welcome to the server" | evtool ascii-banner --font block

README header generator

$ evtool ascii-banner "my-project" --font block >> README.md

All fonts at once

$ evtool ascii-banner --list-fonts
Available fonts: block, simple, slim, bubble, shadow

Why use it?

🎨

5 built-in fonts

No external font files needed. Works out of the box.

📝

Pipe-aware

Reads from stdin. Perfect for script output and README generation.

📦

Zero deps

Unlike figlet which needs font packages, this is pure Python.

⚡

Instant

No startup time. Sub-millisecond banner generation.

Get 261 tools in one install

This is just one of 261 zero-dependency CLI tools in the evolver-tools package.
One pip install gives you CSV analysis, JSON tools, network diagnostics, ASCII art, and more.

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