GlassText

This is the download page for a Gimp Plugin called "Glass Text" that turns plain text into fancy text like this.

Grab the proper zip file for your OS.
dll is for Windows and .so is for Linux

Location to put Binaries
Windows
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\gegl-0.4\plug-ins

Linux
/home/(USERNAME)/.local/share/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Linux (Flatpak)
/home/(USERNAME)/.var/app/org.gimp.GIMP/data/gegl-0.4/plug-ins

Source Code
For some reason the auto Github generated source code of this filter is outdated. So please use the updated source code I provided here named source_code_of_glass_text.zip

Then Restart Gimp and go to GEGL Operations to find the plugin. If you use Gimp 2.99.16 it will be under filters>text styling.