Big marquee: tall FIGlet letters in a glowing retro gradient

Big marquee uses FIGlet's Big font, whose capitals stand six rows tall with rounded bowls drawn in slashes, bars and underscores. A Retro gradient runs from gold at the top through hot pink to violet at the bottom, and a Glow of 60 lights every stroke on a dark plum background, more like a theater sign than a line in a terminal.

Make it yours

• 01

  Fit longer titles

  Big capitals are about seven columns wide, so a title of more than eleven letters wraps at the default Max width of 80. Raise Max width toward 120 to keep it on one line.

• 02

  Change the light

  Try the Sunset or Mint Gradient, or set Direction to Horizontal so the colors run along the title instead of down it. The glow takes the color of each letter, so the whole sign changes mood in one step.

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