What does HackerNews think of figlet-fonts?

Oh nice! That seems to be using the tool 'figlet' (or maybe toilet, from libcaca), and the font is banner3-D, that's available here: https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts

If you install the figlet (or toilet) tool and clone that font repo you can do a :

   figlet -d ./figlet-fonts -f Banner3-D My text
  '##::::'##:'##:::'##::::'########:'########:'##::::'##:'########:
   ###::'###:. ##:'##:::::... ##..:: ##.....::. ##::'##::... ##..::
   ####'####::. ####::::::::: ##:::: ##::::::::. ##'##:::::: ##::::
   ## ### ##:::. ##:::::::::: ##:::: ######:::::. ###::::::: ##::::
   ##. #: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ##...:::::: ## ##:::::: ##::::
   ##:.:: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ##:::::::: ##:. ##::::: ##::::
   ##:::: ##:::: ##:::::::::: ##:::: ########: ##:::. ##:::: ##::::
  ..:::::..:::::..:::::::::::..:::::........::..:::::..:::::..:::::

Toilet also has colour effects and can output in different formats:

   toilet -E list
  Available export formats:
  "caca": native libcaca format
  "ansi": ANSI
  "utf8": UTF-8 with ANSI escape codes
  "utf8cr": UTF-8 with ANSI escape codes and MS-DOS \r
  "html": HTML
  "html3": backwards-compatible HTML
  "bbfr": BBCode (French)
  "irc": IRC with mIRC colours
  "ps": PostScript document
  "svg": SVG vector image
  "tga": TGA image
  "troff": troff source

Cool!

Edit: added image formats

Aside from 3rd party code perhaps one middle-of-the-road idea would be a table of a few hundred factoids and then code that makes multiple choice checkbox factoids like

- Select everything that is a color im sure there are more clever open-ended questions and maybe sometimes switch up "is" with "is not".

- Red

- Blue

- Monkey

- Violet

- Armchair

People say that bots can learn such things but if every site had their own in-house tool then bots would have to keep track of thousands of site specific puzzles. Each site could even rotate through a dozen sets of different puzzle types and pause the ones that get learned. This would avoid sending cookies to a third party or depending on 3rd party code thus mitigating some corporate capture.

Bonus complexity: Don't use Alpha-Numeric characters. Use something like "figlet" [1] and cycle through a few of its ASCII art fonts.

[1] - https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts

To future googlers, the font is Bloody.flf

Get it here: https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts