Update (11th August 2007): We now have numbers!
Description
View-source. You’ve gotta love it. But it’s a bit boring sometimes – line after line of hypertext, with the only highlight being nice indentation if you’re lucky. I thought I’d liven things up a bit by putting some nice messages into the source of my web pages. For example:
_____ ______ _____ _ _____ ______ _____ _____ _____ _____ | _ | | __ | | ___| | | | ___| | __ | | _ | |_ _| | ___| | _ | | |_| | | | | | | |__ | | | | | | | | | |_| | | | | |__ | |_| | | _| | | | | | __| | | | | | | | | | ___| | | | __| | _| | |\ \ | |__| | | | | |___ | |___ | |__| | | | | | | |___ | |\ \ |_| \_\ |______| |_| |_____| |_____| |______| |_| |_| |_____| |_| \_\
That would surely cheer up any source code haxor. So I decided to spread the love and create a really big source code text generator. Give it a go below.
Instructions
You can use the generator below to create really big source code text for your own website. Type the text you want to show up really big in your source code into the box below. It will show up in the larger text area underneath. Numbers and several punctuation characters work too, you’ll have to try them.
What Now?
Copy and paste the text out of the big text area and whack it into your source! You can paste it into a JavaScript tag as long as you keep the /* and */ in place, but don’t forget to put it between <!-- and --> if you’re just going to whack it into your source. View-source this page if you want to see a huge source text message out in the wild.
(yeah it’s not perfect, but without it spelling words such as “COCK” is remarkably difficult)
Thanks fluffle, we now have a ‘K’!
Might I suggest another K?
We now have a new and improved ‘K’ based on John Smythe’s suggestion :-)
i prefer this one
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This K looks pretty good, in my opinion: don’t know about the \ that doesn’t “connect” quite right.
/* _ _ ______ _ _____ _ _ ______ _ _____ _____ /\ \ \ / / | __ | | | | __ \ | | | | | __ | | | | ___| | ___| / \ \ \ / / | | | | | | | | \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / /\ \ \ \/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / __ \ \ / | |__| | | | | |__/ / _ | |__| | | | | | | | _ | |___ | |___ /__/ \__\ \/ |______| |_| |_____/ |_| |______| |_| |_| |_| |_| |_____| |_____| */nice gadget :P
Lovin it. Thanks!
/* _ _ _____ _____ _ \ \ / / |_ _| | ___| | | \ \ /\ / / | | | |__ | | \ \/ \/ / | | | __| |_| \ /\ / | | | | _ \/ \/ |_| |_| |_| */hmm, doesnt look right in preview box ??
Luke: You need to wrap it in a <pre> tag so it gets displayed in a fixed-width font :)
/* _ _ ______ _ _____ _____ ______ _____ _____ _____ \ \ / / /\ | __ | | | |_ _| | ___| | ____| | _ | | ___| /\ |_ _| \ \ /\ / / / \ | | | | | | | | | |___ | | __ | |_| | | |__ / \ | | \ \/ \/ / / /\ \ | | | | | | | | |___ | | | |_ | | _| | __| / /\ \ | | \ /\ / / __ \ | |__| | | | | | ___| | | |__| | | |\ \ | |___ / __ \ | | \/ \/ /__/ \__\ |______| |_| |_| |_____| |______| |_| \_\ |_____| /__/ \__\ |_| */Another K fix, use a left curly bracket
/* _ __ | | / / | |/ / | { | |\ \ |_| \_\ */pre tags didn’t work for me.
Update: Fixed.