BUAF

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

BUAF
 //, n.

   [abbreviation, from alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font -- a special
   form of {ASCII art}. Various programs exist for rendering text strings
   into block, bloob, and pseudo-script fonts in cells between four and
   six character cells on a side; this is smaller than the letters
   generated by older {banner} (sense 2) programs. These are sometimes
   used to render one's name in a {sig block}, and are critically
   referred to as BUAFs. See {warlording}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

BUAF

   [alt.fan.warlord] Big Ugly ASCII Font.  A special form of
   {ASCII art}.  Various programs exist for rendering text
   strings into block, {bloob}, and pseudo-script fonts in cells
   between four and six character cells on a side; this is
   smaller than the letters generated by older {banner} programs.
   These are sometimes used to render one's name in a {sig
   block}, and are critically referred to as "BUAF"s.  See
   {warlording}.

   [{Jargon File}]

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