RGB ASCII art (rgbify)

Taking a shot with Python for the first time and trying to have a bit of fun in the process.

It consists of a small script that plays with ASCII and ANSI escape sequences to add some color to your terminal.

rgbify

You can call it by specifying either an input file or a text string to generate an ASCII banner. It's also possible to call it only with -l to show the last login information.

There's a few options available in order to configure the result:

  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  -i file      input file
  -t text      text to generate
  -o file      output file (will not print result in terminal)
  -f font      font to use, check them here: http://www.figlet.org/examples.html
  -c colors    comma separated hex colors (default: RGB)
  -w width     maximum width of the banner
  -s columns   push colors forward n columns in the next line
  -a times     animate n times (requires delay)
  -d delay     print each character with a delay (milliseconds, default: 0)
  -l position  vertical position to show last login information
  -n lines     add or remove lines at the end (negative to remove)

For example, this:

$ rgbify -t "Hello World" -c FF3355,3355FF,FFFF12 -f graffiti -w 40 -s 4

Will result in:

If you want a nice welcome message when you open your terminal, just add it to your shell config (i.e. .zshrc, .bash_profile, etc).

Some like this:

$ rgbify -t "welcome radix" -f drpepper -s 3 -a 1 -d 2 -l 4

Will yeld this result:

Dependencies

You'll need figlet to run this and you can install it like this:

On mac with brew:

brew install figlet

On ubuntu with apt:

apt install figlet

With pip:

pip3 install pyfiglet

Note: you might need to add --break-system-packages for newer Python versions