"Wanna write big, DOOM-style?"

The DOOM FIGlet font

FIGlet is a nifty program that creates big characters from standard screen characters according to predefined font files, for use as document headers, in signatures, and wherever you'd want to write something in big and/or weird letters. For more information please visit Ian Chai's FIGlet page.

FIGlet would allow creating a DOOM-style banner much quicker than the manual process used in the banners and logos on the preceding pages, but a DOOM font didn't exist. So I chose the existing 'Big' font to work on, and tweaked its uppercase alphabet A-Z and numerals 0-9 into DOOM-like characters. The DOOM font was completed in June 1996 and added to the FIGlet contributed fonts repository. Here's an alphabetical rundown of the characters:

  
  ___  ______  ___________ ___________ _____  _   _ _____   ___ _   __ _
 / _ \ | ___ \/  __ \  _  \  ___|  ___|  __ \| | | |_   _| |_  | | / /| |
/ /_\ \| |_/ /| /  \/ | | | |__ | |_  | |  \/| |_| | | |     | | |/ / | |
|  _  || ___ \| |   | | | |  __||  _| | | __ |  _  | | |     | |    \ | |
| | | || |_/ /| \__/\ |/ /| |___| |   | |_\ \| | | |_| |_/\__/ / |\  \| |____
\_| |_/\____/  \____/___/ \____/\_|    \____/\_| |_/\___/\____/\_| \_/\_____/

___  ___ _   _ ___________ ___________  _____ _____ _   _ _   _  _    ___   __
|  \/  || \ | |  _  | ___ \  _  | ___ \/  ___|_   _| | | | | | || |  | \ \ / /
| .  . ||  \| | | | | |_/ / | | | |_/ /\ `--.  | | | | | | | | || |  | |\ V /
| |\/| || . ` | | | |  __/| | | |    /  `--. \ | | | | | | | | || |/\| |/   \
| |  | || |\  \ \_/ / |   \ \/' / |\ \ /\__/ / | | | |_| \ \_/ /\  /\  / /^\ \
\_|  |_/\_| \_/\___/\_|    \_/\_\_| \_|\____/  \_/  \___/ \___/  \/  \/\/   \/

__   _____________  __   _____  _____    ___  _____  ____  ___________  _____
\ \ / /___  /  _  |/  | / __  \|____ |  /   ||  ___|/ ___||___  /  _  ||  _  |
 \ V /   / /| |/' |`| | `' / /'    / / / /| ||___ \/ /___    / / \ V / | |_| |
  \ /   / / |  /| | | |   / /      \ \/ /_| |    \ \ ___ \  / /  / _ \ \____ |
  | | ./ /__\ |_/ /_| |_./ /___.___/ /\___  |/\__/ / \_/ |./ /  | |_| |.___/ /
  \_/ \_____/\___/ \___/\_____/\____/     |_/\____/\_____/\_/   \_____/\____/
  

For a practical example, see the header on the first page.

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