diff --git a/figlet.awk b/figlet.awk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9ae184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/figlet.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+BEGIN { char_cnt=32; line_cnt=0; print "#!/bin/bash\ndeclare -A a" } 	# echo bash shebang + declaring associative array for string keys
+NR==1 {height=$2; start=$6; print "height=" $2} 		# interpreting flf first line variables
+NR-start-1>0 && char_cnt<123 {			# for every line with characters definitions:
+	line=$0;
+	gsub("@","",line);						# replace all "@" with blank
+	gsub("\$"," ",line);						# replace all dollar signs with blank space
+	gsub("'","'\"'\"'",line);					# replace every occurance of single quote, with escape
+	printf "a[\"%i,%i\"]='%s';", char_cnt, line_cnt, substr(line,2) # print array formated characters
+	line_cnt++;
+}
+char_cnt<123 && match($0, /@@$/) { char_cnt++; line_cnt=0; print "" }
+
diff --git a/generate.sh b/generate.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2ea8dbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/generate.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "No arguments supplied"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [[ "$1" != *.flf ]]; then
+  echo "Are you sure you supplied FIGlet font file?"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+f=`basename "$1"`
+output="${f%.flf}.sh"
+
+if [ -f $output ]; then
+  echo "File $output already exists. Aborting."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+awk -f figlet.awk $1 > $output
+cat prettyPrintSnippet.sh >> $output
+chmod +x $output
+echo "Successfuly written to file $output"
diff --git a/prettyPrintSnippet.sh b/prettyPrintSnippet.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1343e25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prettyPrintSnippet.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+
+function prettyPrint {
+	str=$1
+	strarr=()
+	for (( i=0; i<${#str}; i++ )); do
+		strarr+=(`printf '%d\n' "'${str:$i:1}"`)
+	done
+	for ((i=0;i<$height;i++)) do
+		for j in "${strarr[@]}"; do
+			printf "%s" "${a["$j,$i"]}"
+		done
+		printf "\n"
+	done
+}
+prettyPrint $1
+