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Colossal

A FIGlet banner design, 11 rows tall , by patorjk. In the generator.

Colossal full specimen: its name and the characters it covers

The specimen is rendered from the held file itself by the same FIGlet parser the generator runs: the name line, then the characters the font actually covers.

FormatFIGlet (.flf)
Authorpatorjk
Date stated in commentsJune 17, 2007
Height11 rows
Files in the libraryColossal.flf
Print directionLeft to right

Coverage

Complete: A-Z, a-z and 0-9 all carry ink.

Provenance

What the font's own header comments say, kept as written. Authorship and dates on this page come from this text and nowhere else.

Colossal.flf (Jonathon - jon@mq.edu.au)
8 June 1994

Explanation of first line:
flf2 - "magic number" for file identification
a    - should always be `a', for now
$    - the "hardblank" -- prints as a blank, but can't be smushed
11   - height of a character
8    - height of a character, not including descenders
20   - max line length (excluding comment lines) + a fudge factor
32   - default smushmode for this font
13   - number of comment lines

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Font modified June 17, 2007 by patorjk
This was to widen the space character.

Where it stands

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