unifonter
unifonter is a filter that tries to make ASCII fancy with the help of Unicode
quick intro
unifonter is meant to be used as a filter, or as a quick lookup /
translation tool. So you can use it either like
$ man man | unifonter
𝔐𝔄𝔑(1) 𝔐𝔞𝔫𝔲𝔞𝔩 𝔭𝔞𝔤𝔢𝔯 𝔲𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔰 𝔐𝔄𝔑(1)
𝔑𝔄𝔐𝔈
𝔪𝔞𝔫 - 𝔞𝔫 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔪 𝔯𝔢𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔲𝔞𝔩𝔰
𝔖𝔜𝔑𝔒𝔓𝔖ℑ𝔖
𝔪𝔞𝔫 [𝔪𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰] [[𝔰𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫] 𝔭𝔞𝔤𝔢 ...] ...
𝔪𝔞𝔫 -𝔨 [𝔞𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔭𝔬𝔰 𝔬𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰] 𝔯𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔵𝔭 ...
𝔪𝔞𝔫 -𝔎 [𝔪𝔞𝔫 𝔬𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰] [𝔰𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫] 𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔪 ...
𝔪𝔞𝔫 -𝔣 [𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔰 𝔬𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰] 𝔭𝔞𝔤𝔢 ...
or
$ unifonter Hello
ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠
Several different styles are supported; use --kind (or -k) followed by a
style combination you want, otherwise one is chosen at random.
Supported styles can be seen via unifonter -d:
| Use | Or | To get |
|---|---|---|
| bold | b | 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝 |
| italic | i | 𝐼𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐 |
| bold italic | bi | 𝑩𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒄 |
| sans | s | 𝖲𝖺𝗇𝗌-𝖲𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖿 |
| bold sans | bs | 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘀-𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱 |
| italic sans | is | 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘴-𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘧 𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤 |
| bold italic sans | bis | 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙨-𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙛 𝘽𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙄𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙘 |
| script | c | 𝒮𝒸𝓇𝒾𝓅𝓉 |
| bold script | bc | 𝓑𝓸𝓵𝓭 𝓢𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓽 |
| double-struck | d | 𝔻𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖-𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜 |
| fraktur | f | 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯 |
| bold fraktur | bf | 𝕭𝖔𝖑𝖉 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 |
| small-caps | k | Sᴍᴀʟʟ-Cᴀᴘꜱ |
| mono | m | 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 |
| wide | w | Ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ |
For the long forms, separate with whatever is most convenient for you:
spaces, dashes, pluses or underscores.
Order does not matter (bold fraktur or fraktur bold, bis or sib).
You can shorten double-struck to double, small-caps to caps,
monospace to mono and fullwidth to wide, in case the full names
are just too verbose for you. You can also mix short and long forms.
If you hate calling sans-serif sans, you can lengthen that one too.
Some other options are supported; see the output of -h.