# Bash - ASCII art > Learn how to add eye-catching ASCII art banners to your Bash scripts for a bigger visual impact. Includes a full sample code implementation. ---  **TL;DR** This short article shows how to add an ASCII-art banner to Bash scripts for a bit of visual flair, generated with the free patorjk.com/software/taag tool and echoed at the top of the script. I write a lot of Bash scripts, and I like to have a similar approach for each one: a banner, [a logging function](/blog/bash-logging), [doc blocks above each function](/blog/linux-generate-documentation-from-bash-scripts). One of the things I always do is to include a good old-fashioned *ASCII Art* banner, perhaps for the geek factor, but mostly to make a bigger visual impact. I use to create my banners, so let's take a closer look. *The same idea, applied to a website instead of a console: [Inject ASCII Art in any HTML pages rendered by Docusaurus](/blog/docusaurus-ascii-art).*  For my part, I'm implementing the banner like this: **script.sh** ```bash #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail function __main() { clear # http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Big&t=My%20Nice%20Script cat <<\EOF __ __ _ _ _ _____ _ _ | \/ | | \ | (_) / ____| (_) | | | \ / |_ _ | \| |_ ___ ___ | (___ ___ _ __ _ _ __ | |_ | |\/| | | | | | . ` | |/ __/ _ \ \___ \ / __| '__| | '_ \| __| | | | | |_| | | |\ | | (_| __/ ____) | (__| | | | |_) | |_ |_| |_|\__, | |_| \_|_|\___\___| |_____/ \___|_| |_| .__/ \__| __/ | | | |___/ |_| EOF printf "%s\n\n" "(c) Copyright ..." # Program the functions of your script here, # such as calling your functions return 0 } __main "$@" ``` And this is how it'll look in my bash terminal: