arttime VS figlet.js

Below is a collection of figures from arttime's manpage. It can be opened with arttime -m or man arttime from terminal. You can also see arttime's manpage (without colors) in your web browser: arttime manwebpage.

arttime is a terminal application that blends beauty of text-art with functionality of clock, timer, and pattern-based time manager. One can also display customized dynamic feed of information like weather, news, stocks, system metrics and etc. The above GIF shows that a feeder can be used to display weather in arttime.

Links:

1. [v2.3.0 release notes](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/tag/v2.3.0)

2. [arttime_2.3.0-1_all.deb](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/download/v2.3.0...) package

3. [arttime man txt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar...)

4. [arttime main page](https://github.com/poetaman/arttime)

Please read sections ORCHESTRATING and CONTRIBUTING (which has a software spec) in [arttime man txt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar...). to understand how to write custom information feeders. They can be written in any language, and should be quite simple. Please get in touch if you write something of common interest. Link to such feeders will get added to arttime's page, and best ones will get special mention. Here's an example that shows how line of text under art can be remotely updated to show "Hello World":

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v2.3.0 of arttime enables silent remote updates for exciting information feeders, adds illustrative manpage, and new .deb package. One can write a customized information feeder in language of choice. Please feel free to share if you write something of value to others, a link to your work will be added to arttime's page. Links:

1. arttime release: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/releases/tag/v2.3.0

2. Man page's .txt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/poetaman/arttime/main/shar...

3. `$ arttime -m`

4. Supplementary wiki: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime/wiki

It's mentioned on the README.md's Troubleshooting section: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime#troubleshooting. Having seen fellow humans, I opine that not many will reach there.

Package managers should agree to remove software from a platform if the developer thinks it's not fruitful for them to keep publishing there, or it's detrimental to the user's experience.

arttime is a clock, timer, time manager, ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII/Unicode text-art and ~animation/storyboard viewer that comes with a library of curated quality text-art. Notes: it's coded in zsh, but that's not required to be user's shell to install or use. If you would like to collaborate on a package for a package manager, among other things, feel free to drop a note in arttime discussions.

arttime wiki

arttime homepage

Pragmasevka on GitHub. Add some ASCII art from arttime’s collection too: https://github.com/poetaman/arttime

Commander.js provides a lot of features that allow you to succinctly build command-line interfaces. Furthermore, the Node.js community provides libraries such as Chalk and Figlet that complement Commander.js CLIs to make them look visually appealing.

I have a popular web based ascii text generator (patorjk.com/software/taag), it uses FIGlet driver that I wrote (https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js/). Many of the other ones out there also use their own drivers (I've seen some written in php and python). There are also different types of ASCII text fonts out there other than FIGlet (ex: my app compiles fonts that were made in the AOL days in the Arial font - which is interesting because it's a non-monospaced font).

FIGlet is the most popular spec for these types of fonts though (it's an app and a spec). The mailing list hasn't been active in a decade, but people used to submit fonts there. It was cool to see what people made.

The oldami tool uses chalk to colorize the output and figlet for the banner.