Figlet is an ASCII Font Generator.  You put in some text you want made fancy, like this:

FIGlet

and it comes out of figlet like this:
                           _____ ___ ____ _      _
                          |  ___|_ _/ ___| | ___| |_
                          | |_   | | |  _| |/ _ \ __|
                          |  _|  | | |_| | |  __/ |_
                          |_|   |___\____|_|\___|\__|


(If you are viewing this in Notepad it should look right.  If you are in Wordpad, choose Courier New as
your font to view this correctly).

FIGlet has several different fonts included, and you can get more off the Web at 
http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html.