cowsay vs figlet

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cowsay is a configurable talking cow (by piuccio)

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Claudio's FIGlet tree (by cmatsuoka)

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cowsay		figlet
	Project
3	Mentions	9
1,072	Stars	1,289
-	Growth	-
5.6	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
JavaScript	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cowsay

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowsay. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

Useless CLI tools
3 projects | /r/linux | 11 Dec 2023

I'm looking for dumb, useless and fun cli tools like cowsay or Hollywood
Tell me some Linux facts or cool things.
6 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 10 Oct 2021

cowsay
Top 5 Funny JavaScript libraries
3 projects | dev.to | 24 Mar 2021

3. Cowsay

figlet

Posts with mentions or reviews of figlet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

ASCII Art: From a Commodity into an Obscurity
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2023
Useless CLI tools
3 projects | /r/linux | 11 Dec 2023

Figlet: makes big text with ascii art. http://www.figlet.org/
Fun and Useful CLI Tools for Linux
1 project | dev.to | 18 Jan 2023

Need to change font, size, italics? - Not a problem. The tool knows how to do this simply with argulet.
figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2022
Ask HN: What are some interesting examples of Prolog?
20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2022

figlet is the classic tool to generate these, toilet is a slightly more modern reimplementation with some added features (like color)
http://www.figlet.org/
Where can I find a text bubble text generator for code comments similar to the link below?
1 project | /r/programming | 13 Mar 2022
ASCII art for semantic code commenting
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2022

I love this and I'm going to use it for fancy comments in code and in the browser console. It'd be really cool if you could integrate something like http://www.figlet.org/ for inserting ASCII text art.
I wish I had known about this tool when I building this little browser game https://replit.com/@aMoniker/Gush because all the levels & game objects are generated from multiline strings of ascii symbols, and it just took too long to do manually.
Happy 30th Birthday, Linux!
1 project | /r/kde | 26 Aug 2021

Tip: use figlet next time.
Finally switched back to Linux
6 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 17 Aug 2021

Terminal programs: Neofetch (Top left), Figlet (Top right), Ranger (Bottom left), Neovim (Bottom right)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cowsay and figlet you can also consider the following projects:

neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

hollywood

venn.nvim - Draw ASCII diagrams in Neovim

cmatrix - Terminal based "The Matrix" like implementation

figlet-fonts - my collection of figlet / toilet ascii art fonts

lolcat - Rainbows and unicorns!

arttime - arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰

fortune-mod - Implementation of the Unix fortune command for displaying a random quotation, for Linux and other systems.

openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)

fuckitjs - The Original Javascript Error Steamroller

libredwg - Official mirror of libredwg. With CI hooks and nightly releases. PR's ok