Type a word, get a five-line block-letter banner in plain text, ready for READMEs, code comments and profiles.
ASCII banner text predates images on computers, it was how terminals shouted. The generator renders each letter from a built-in five-row block font and joins the letters with consistent spacing, producing the classic banner used in README files, source-code headers, forum signatures and release notes. Output is pure text: it pastes anywhere monospace text survives, and the fill character is switchable for different flavors (the full block renders heaviest, the hash is the traditional terminal look).
One practical warning: banners only align in monospace fonts. Pasting into a proportional-font context (most word processors, some chat apps without code formatting) collapses the spacing and the art with it, wrap it in a code block (triple backticks) wherever the platform supports Markdown. Keep words short: banners grow five rows tall regardless, but width scales with every character, and past about 14 characters most screens wrap.
Which characters are supported? A–Z, 0–9 and common punctuation (. ! ? - + : '). Unsupported characters render as a blank space so alignment is preserved.
Why does it look broken in my document? The document is using a proportional font. Switch the pasted block to a monospace font (Consolas, Menlo, Courier) or a code block and the columns line back up.
Can I make multi-line banners? Generate each line separately and stack them, the fixed five-row height makes stacking exact.