About Toast Unicorn
A small set of free tools for playing with text: big ASCII banners, pictures made of characters, kaomoji, framed notes and emoji letters.
How it works
Every tool runs inside your browser. The text you type and the pictures you drop in are turned into art by code on the page and never uploaded; there are no accounts, no ads and no cookies. Once a page has loaded, its tool keeps working even if your connection drops.
The site counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies or cross-site tracking and never receives what you type, paste or drop into the tools. The privacy page has the details.
The kaomoji collection, the emoji letter shapes, the box styles and all the writing were put together for this site. Toast Unicorn is independent: it is not connected to the FIGlet or TOIlet projects or to any of the authors credited below.
Credits and licences
The text to ASCII tool draws with figlet.js by Patrick Gillespie and contributors (MIT licence) and offers only fonts whose licences allow them to be shared. Each font file keeps its original header with the author's notes.
| Font | Made by | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai, 1993; Latin-2 to 5 by John Cowan; layout data by Paul Burton | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Big | Glenn Chappell, 1993; Greek letters by Bruce Jakeway; layout data by Paul Burton | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Slant | Glenn Chappell, 1993; layout data by Paul Burton | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Small | Glenn Chappell, 1993; layout data by Paul Burton | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Shadow | Glenn Chappell, 1993; layout data by Paul Burton; wider space by Patrick Gillespie | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Script | Glenn Chappell, 1993; layout data by Paul Burton | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Banner | Ryan Youck, 1994, after the Unix banner program; katakana by Vinney Thai; merged by John Cowan | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Bubble | Glenn Chappell, 1993; Latin-2 to 4 by John Cowan; layout data by Paul Burton | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Digital | Glenn Chappell, 1994; Latin-2 to 4 by John Cowan; layout data by Paul Burton | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Mini | Glenn Chappell, 1993; layout data by Paul Burton | BSD 3-Clause (ships with FIGlet 2.2.5) |
| Future | Sam Hocevar, 2006 (TOIlet) | WTFPL 2 (ships with TOIlet) |
| Pagga | Sam Hocevar and pagga, 2010 (TOIlet) | WTFPL 2 (ships with TOIlet) |
| ANSI Compact | Loïc Cressot | MIT |
| Classy | Loïc Cressot | MIT |
The FIGlet fonts ship with FIGlet 2.2.5, which is distributed under this licence:
Copyright (C) 1991, 1993, 1994 Glenn Chappell and Ian Chai Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 John Cowan Copyright (C) 2002 Christiaan Keet Copyright (C) 2011 Claudio Matsuoka All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of their contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Future and Pagga are part of TOIlet by Sam Hocevar and are free software under the WTFPL, version 2. ANSI Compact and Classy are by Loïc Cressot, who released them as free to use and distribute under the MIT licence.
figlet.js is used under the MIT licence:
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (C) 2014-present Patrick Gillespie and other contributors Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
The site's own type is DynaPuff by the DynaPuff Project Authors, Andika by SIL International and Anonymous Pro by Mark Simonson, all under the SIL Open Font License and served from this site through Fontsource. Icons are from Lucide (ISC licence).