How to make a banner from the command line

I thought I'd send out some command line Christmas cheer. What better way than to use figlet.

mike@shiner $ figlet 'Merry XMAS!'
 __  __                       __  ____  __    _    ____  _ 
|  \/  | ___ _ __ _ __ _   _  \ \/ /  \/  |  / \  / ___|| |
| |\/| |/ _ \ '__| '__| | | |  \  /| |\/| | / _ \ \___ \| |
| |  | |  __/ |  | |  | |_| |  /  \| |  | |/ ___ \ ___) |_|
|_|  |_|\___|_|  |_|   \__, | /_/\_\_|  |_/_/   \_\____/(_)
                       |___/