Short ASCII Art Generator
Turn any text into ASCII art with the Short FIGlet font — free, instant, and processed entirely in your browser.
Short preview
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The preview above updates as you type. Nothing is uploaded — the font is rendered on your device.
Short in a sentence
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Short digits
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About the Short font
- Height
- 3 lines
- Layout
- full width
- Lowercase
- distinct lowercase glyphs
- Digits
- yes
- Category
- Classic
From the FIGlet font collection: Short and sweet by Sub-Zero (bodom@ugly.ucs.indiana.edu)
Open Short in the full generator →
The full generator adds colour, layout modes, a size slider, and .txt / .png export.
What Short looks like, and when to use it
Short 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, 3 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 3 lines high and joins them using full width 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.
