With Text_Figlet you can create ASCII-art like text using FIGlet font description files (FIGlet fonts). The package supports horizontal smushing, German symbols (e.g. äöü), RTL and LTR writing directions as well as incomplete and gzipped fonts (as long as php's zlib extension is installed).
"Hello, world!" written using a FIGlet font
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