Shadow ASCII Art Generator
Turn any text into ASCII art with the Shadow FIGlet font — free, instant, and processed entirely in your browser.
Shadow preview
___| | |
\___ \ __ \ _` | _` | _ \ \ \ \ /
| | | | ( | ( | ( | \ \ \ /
_____/ _| |_| \__,_| \__,_| \___/ \_/\_/
The preview above updates as you type. Nothing is uploaded — the font is rendered on your device.
Shadow in a sentence
| | | | \ \ / | |
| | _ \ | | _ \ \ \ \ / _ \ __| | _` |
___ | __/ | | ( | \ \ \ / ( | | | ( |
_| _| \___| _| _| \___/ \_/\_/ \___/ _| _| \__,_|
Shadow digits
_ \ _ | ___ \ ___ / | | ___| / ___ | _ ) _ \
| | | ) | _ \ | | __ \ _ \ / _ \ ( |
| | | __/ ) | ___ __| ) | ( | / ( | \__ |
\___/ _| _____| ____/ _| ____/ \___/ _/ \___/ __/
About the Shadow font
- Height
- 5 lines
- Layout
- smushed (universal)
- Lowercase
- distinct lowercase glyphs
- Digits
- yes
- Category
- Decorative
From the FIGlet font collection: Shadow by Glenn Chappell 6/93 -- based on Standard & SmShadow
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The full generator adds colour, layout modes, a size slider, and .txt / .png export.
What Shadow looks like, and when to use it
Shadow is one of 59 FIGlet fonts on this site. FIGlet fonts are not typefaces in the usual sense: each one is a small file describing how to draw every character out of ordinary text symbols, 5 lines tall, so the result is plain text you can paste anywhere a monospace font renders — a terminal banner, a README, a code comment, an IRC channel.
This font draws its characters 5 lines high and joins them using smushed (universal) layout, which is the setting the font's own author chose. It has its own lowercase glyphs, so mixed-case text keeps its shape. Wide art is the usual gotcha: a banner that looks right in a full-width terminal will wrap badly in a narrow one, so check the width of your text before you paste it somewhere fixed.
