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The canonical placeholder text, plus the Cicero passage it was cut from and an explanation of what it says.
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Lorem Ipsum sits in Text & Font Toys under Make, and we have it filed as instant — good within five seconds of loading. It reads as useful, brainy and nostalgic.
Fancy text converters, ASCII art makers, typography experiments and the specific pleasure of putting words through something that mangles them.
Decades of ASCII drawings sorted by subject, from cats to warships, every one of them ready to copy and paste.
Draws boxes, arrows and flowcharts entirely out of monospace characters, for diagrams that live inside code comments.
Chrome, flames and bevelled gradients — the 2003 logo generator, still online and still producing exactly that.
Home of the format that turns text into large letters made of smaller letters, with the whole font archive attached.
Every symbol, alphabet and text decoration you might want to paste somewhere, organised well enough to find one.
Hundreds of small text translators — pirate, medieval, wingdings, uwu — plus a builder for making your own.
Generate a fake newspaper clipping, a talking animation or a ransom note. The 2005 internet, rebuilt so it still works.
Type a word, pick from several hundred FIGlet fonts, and get the enormous ASCII banner your terminal deserves.