How to write in super large letters in an ordinary textfield?

Question

I came across a YouTube whose title was made of letters that were not part of its logo. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZkgIjJlsxA (it appears they letters have been removed, or YouTube disabled it). These letters are considered part of the text and provide a huge advantage over other videos in terms of visibility.

How did the makers of this video create these giant letters?

Is it a special font, or perhaps a hack using some foreign writing system?

Answer 1

It is done using block element characters that look like they spell another word:

█▬█ █ ▀█▀

It is actually an ASCII art with the following characters: █ ▬ ▀

It can't be used to spell all letters of the alphabet, but you can try. Other characters can help as well.

Here I just wrote the first part of your username: █ ╔╦╗
I gave up because the R is hard to draw, but I am sure there are some online generators out there.

I am not sure YouTube approves of using such tricks, though.

Answer 2

Enter any text in this web site and get it translated as big block characters in different styles.

╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╭╮
╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱┃┃
╭━━┳━━┳━━┫┃
┃╭━┫╭╮┃╭╮┃┃
┃╰━┫╰╯┃╰╯┃╰╮
╰━━┻━━┻━━┻━╯

Just need to click on the tabs on top for selecting style: Flip, Bold, Blocky, Bubble, etc.

For example:

• TArty - Generate big artful text signs
• Carty - Generate BIG text art signs
• Blocky texts