How do I manage to make those beautiful sigs?

I happened to drop by this newsgroup and got surprised to see how 
marvelous sigs people make. I'd like to emulate them. Do these 
increidible sig-makers use any software?, where do they find them?.

Please, help !!!

Jose Luis Ucieda
jlu...@ccuam3.sdi.uam.es
"Fall seven times, stand up eight", chinese proverb

dracma13 <usu...@casiopea.adi.uam.es> wrote in article
<4upnic$d4...@acebo.sdi.uam.es>...
> I happened to drop by this newsgroup and got surprised to see how 
> marvelous sigs people make. I'd like to emulate them. Do these 
> increidible sig-makers use any software?, where do they find them?.
> 
> Please, help !!!
> 
> Jose Luis Ucieda
> jlu...@ccuam3.sdi.uam.es
> "Fall seven times, stand up eight", chinese proverb

The figlet program at ftp://ftp.nicoh.net/pub/figlet/ is a classic example.
You can create huge titles/signatures with it, and even graphics if you
download the right fonts for it. (Example: eftiwall.flf) The huge letters
in my sig were created with figlet, the Sonic was found in this group
previously, I think. Here's an example of eftiwall.flf:

     /\         _   _   ,---------------------------------------.
    /  \/\     (_)-(_)  | No, I'm not in the Mickey Mouse Club! |
 /`/   /  \     (o o)   _)--------------------------------------'
------------ooO--(_)--Ooo----------------------------------------

Cool, huh? Just string together the right symbols to make the graphic. That
was %x>, where the % is mountains, the x is Mickey-Guy, and the > is an
Enter-Text-Here balloon.

-- 

       ___------__
  |\__-- /\       _-
  |/    __      -
  //\  /  \    /__     Where there's a hedgehog, there's a way.
  |  o|  O|__     --_   ________         _____        __    __  ___
  \\____-- __ \   ___- /_  __/ /  ___   / ___/__  ___/ /__ /  |/  /__ ____
  (@@    __/  / /_      / / / _ \/ -_) / /__/ _ \/ _  / -_) /|_/ / _ `/ _ \
     -_____---   --_   /_/ /_//_/\__/  \___/\___/\_,_/\__/_/  /_/\_,_/_//_/
      //  \ \\   ___-
    //|\__/  \\  \     cod...@ix.netcom.com
    \_-\_____/  \-\
         // \\--\|
    ____//  ||_
   /_____\ /___\

In article <4upnic$d4...@acebo.sdi.uam.es>, dracma13
<usu...@casiopea.adi.uam.es> writes
>I happened to drop by this newsgroup and got surprised to see how 
>marvelous sigs people make. I'd like to emulate them. Do these 
>increidible sig-makers use any software?, where do they find them?.
>
>Please, help !!!
>
>Jose Luis Ucieda
>jlu...@ccuam3.sdi.uam.es
>"Fall seven times, stand up eight", chinese proverb
>
If you use Windows then theres nothing easier than creating Ascii-art
lettering using the freeware program 'Siggen'. All you do is type in
your word, select your font and your Ascii art word is generated.

Take a peek at  http://www.bagley.demon.co.uk/

examples ......

  ____|                                         
  |      __|  _ \  _ \\ \  \   /  _` |  __|  _ \
  __|   |     __/  __/ \ \  \ /  (   | |     __/
 _|    _|   \___|\___|  \_/\_/  \__,_|_|   \___|
                                                
 
  ________                           ______
_______________
 ___  __ \______ ___      _________ ___  /______ ______ _______  /___  /
 __  / / /_  __ \__ | /| / /__  __ \__  / _  __ \_  __ `/_  __  / __  / 
 _  /_/ / / /_/ /__ |/ |/ / _  / / /_  /  / /_/ // /_/ / / /_/ /   /_/  
 /_____/  \____/ ____/|__/  /_/ /_/ /_/   \____/ \__,_/  \__,_/   (_)   
                                                                        
 
  __   _                            
 / _\ (_)  __ _   __ _   ___  _ __  
 \ \  | | / _` | / _` | / _ \| '_ \ 
 _\ \ | || (_| || (_| ||  __/| | | |
 \__/ |_| \__, | \__, | \___||_| |_|
          |___/  |___/              
 

Tally-Ho!

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 |   |__   _______ ______ ___     ______ ___  ___
 |   _   \|   _   |   ___|   |   | _____|\  \/  /
 |  |_ )  |   _   |  |_---   |___| ____|  |    |
 |________|__| |__|____   |______|______| |____|
 WWW.BAGLEY.DEMON.CO.UK|__|IA...@BAGLEY.DEMON.CO.UK
 

><usu...@casiopea.adi.uam.es> writes
>>I happened to drop by this newsgroup and got surprised to see how 
>>marvelous sigs people make. I'd like to emulate them. Do these 
>>increidible sig-makers use any software?, where do they find them?.
>>
>>Please, help !!!

Or just use your imagination with it! Nice letters aren't everything.

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