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FIGlet is a computer program that generates text banners, in a variety of typefaces, comprised of letters made up of conglomerations of smaller ASCII characters (see ASCII Art).

Being free software, FIGlet is commonly included as part of many Unix-like operating system (Linux[4], BSD, etc.) distributions, but it has been ported to other platforms as well. The official FIGlet FTP site includes precompiled ports for the Acorn, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, BeOS, Macintosh, MS-DOS, NextStep, OS/2, and Windows platforms, as well as a reimplementation in Perl (Text::FIGlet).[5] There are third-party reimplementations of FIGLet in Java[6] (including one embedded in the JavE ASCII Art editor), Javascript[7] and PHP[8]. FIGlet was featured as a Debian Package of the Day in 2007.[9]

Figlet is cool apps to create banner to your motd or issue

To install it, just enable your ubuntu repo and
sudo apt-get install figlet

See lot of its instruction of use by issuing this command
man figlet

You can also use http://schnoggo.com/figlet.html

It is a web based banner creator