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Asked: 2018-10-30 05:48:30 +0800 CST

Figlet/TOIlet fonts can't be loaded in the terminal

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I was trying to use TOIlet, and it worked just fine in the beginning. Later I was trying to install some program to record my terminal, such as asciinema, and I encountered this error every time I try to run TOIlet.

error: could not load font ascii9

I tried all other kinds of fonts and the only one that works is the term.

I would appreciate any help, thanks!

gnome-terminal fonts ascii-art

1 Answers

  1. Looks like you missing the toilet-fonts package.

    sudo apt install toilet-fonts

    The fonts are there:

    $ dpkg -L toilet-fonts | grep tlf
/usr/share/figlet/ascii12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/ascii9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/bigascii12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/bigascii9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/bigmono12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/bigmono9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/circle.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/emboss.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/emboss2.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/future.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/letter.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/mono12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/mono9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/pagga.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smascii12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smascii9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smblock.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smbraille.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smmono12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smmono9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/wideterm.tlf

    Another issue can be if somehow toilet was using another directory for fonts, force the right directory with the --directory (or -d) option:

    $ toilet --directory /usr/share/figlet/ -f ascii9 Ubuntu 
                                          
 m    m #                      m          
 #    # #mmm   m   m  m mm   mm#mm  m   m 
 #    # #" "#  #   #  #"  #    #    #   # 
 #    # #   #  #   #  #   #    #    #   # 
 "mmmm" ##m#"  "mm"#  #   #    "mm  "mm"#
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