Bit is a terminal-based ANSI logo designer and bitmap-font utility for creating stylised text.
The software provides an interactive terminal interface for designing and previewing logos. It can also be used as a command-line tool for quickly rendering text or as a standalone Go library for adding ANSI text rendering to other software.
Bit includes more than 100 bitmap fonts and offers gradients, shadows, scaling, alignment, spacing and kerning controls. Finished designs can be exported as images, plain text or source code for several programming languages.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides an interactive multi-panel terminal interface.
- Includes more than 100 bitmap fonts.
- Supports multi-line text.
- Offers automatic and manually adjustable kerning.
- Adjusts character, word and line spacing.
- Aligns text to the left, centre or right.
- Scales text from 0.5× to 4× its original size.
- Applies horizontal and vertical colour gradients.
- Includes 14 predefined colours.
- Accepts custom colours specified as hexadecimal values.
- Adds horizontal and vertical textured shadows.
- Offers light, medium and dark shadow styles.
- Randomises fonts, colours and gradient settings.
- Loads individual custom fonts or directories of fonts.
- Embeds the bundled fonts within the executable.
- Exports designs as PNG images with transparent backgrounds.
- Exports plain text with ANSI escape sequences removed.
- Generates Go, JavaScript, Python, Rust and Bash source code.
- Provides a non-interactive command-line mode.
- Includes a standalone Go library for programmatic text rendering.
Website: github.com/paulilaaso/bit
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Developer: Pauli
License: MIT License
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