Make quick & dirty ASCII art out of a hex string and TTF fonts - example at https://github.com/aczid/ru_crypto_engineering/blob/master/README.md#ascii-art

gistfile1.py

from PIL import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw
import sys

# Prettify ascii into a TTF rendered ascii art banner

if not len(sys.argv) > 1:
  print "Supply string to render"
  sys.exit()

if not len(sys.argv) > 2:
  print "Supply size"
  sys.exit()
if not len(sys.argv) > 3:
  print "Supply input code"
  sys.exit()

if not len(sys.argv) > 4:
  print "Supply font"
  sys.exit()

try:
  image = Image.new("RGB", (140,30), (255,255,255))
  usr_font = ImageFont.truetype(sys.argv[4], int(sys.argv[2]))
  d_usr = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
  d_usr = d_usr.text((0,0), sys.argv[1], (0,0,0), font=usr_font)
  data = list(image.getdata())
  image.save("test.png")

  width,height = image.size
  input_str = sys.argv[3]
  input_index = 0
  print sys.argv[4]

  for y in range(0, height):
    for x in range(0, width):
      if data[(y*width)+x] == (255,255,255):
        sys.stdout.write(" ")
      else:
        if input_index < len(input_str):
          sys.stdout.write(input_str[input_index])
          input_index += 1
        else:
          sys.stdout.write("0")
    sys.stdout.write("\n")
except (Exception):
  sys.exit()