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2019-03-30 / \/ \/ / \
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I have a love-hate relationship with / _/ / /
FIGlet fonts, on one hand they're a \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
convenient way to make a text file header or / \/ \/ / \
banner look pretty neat but on the other / _/ /_ _/
they always look like they were generated by /- / _/ /
FIGlet, the same as everyone else's FIGlet- \________/\________/\___/____/
generated banners and it feels kinda lazy. I
had used a FIGlet banner on my gopher space and in the masthead for FAX SEX
for a while but even then I fiddled with and move things around to try and
make it look like I at least put in a little bit of effort.
Anyway that was quite a while ago and my layout has changed significantly a
couple times since then, the first change was pretty clumsy but at least
original work and, you know, you get a little bit better each time so the
second change was a bit better and then I think the third big overhaul was
when I migrated from the SDF space to here on the baby.
I'm pretty happy with the style I have going on here, I put real effort
into getting it just how I liked it, though I did hold off on switching to
using unicode characters for a while. I never should have. "In for a penny, in
for a pound," after all.
Anyway, getting to my point; when I was working on the layout I put
together a font for it, which I jokingly referred to as "BABYFACE" and it
turns out FIGlet fonts are almost criminally easy to make so, because I love
ya, I turned BABYFACE into a flf. No digits, no punctuation and the capital
letters are pre-fancied whereas on baud.baby I fancy letters on a whim.
I threw it in files/ and have submitted it to some of the online FIGlet
font tools so knock yourself out. You're the cat now dogg. I've already had a
couple imitators in the gophersphere but they never last, maybe this will make
things a little easier for future cat wannabes.
