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Text Art (ASCII Art) ( /\_/\ ( o.o ) > ^ <)
Text art — pictures drawn with plain characters, from the classic keyboard cat to owls, houses and pine trees. Click any piece to copy it exactly, spacing included.
Copy the full text
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Full text | /\_/\
( o.o )
> ^ < |
| Single code point | None — this is a string of 21 separate Unicode characters, not one symbol, so it has no single code point, HTML entity or Alt code. The character-by-character breakdown is below. |
Character breakdown
Every character used, with its real Unicode name and code point — each one copyable on its own:
| Character | Unicode name | Code point |
|---|---|---|
| Space | U+0020 | |
| / | Solidus | U+002F |
| \ | Reverse Solidus | U+005C |
| _ | Low Line | U+005F |
| ( | Left Parenthesis | U+0028 |
| o | Latin Small Letter O | U+006F |
| . | Full Stop | U+002E |
| ) | Right Parenthesis | U+0029 |
| > | Greater-Than Sign | U+003E |
| ^ | Circumflex Accent | U+005E |
| < | Less-Than Sign | U+003C |
Text Art (ASCII Art) collection (10)
10 named entries — click any tile to copy it. No duplicates.
Meaning & usage
Text art (ASCII art) is drawing with the characters on a keyboard: slashes lean into roofs, brackets become ears, and a handful of letters and punctuation turn into cats, owls and coffee cups. It predates image attachments entirely — typewriter artists were doing it a century ago, and BBS and forum culture made it a folk art. Two honest technical notes.
First, alignment is everything: these pictures only line up in a monospace font, where every character is the same width, so paste them into a code block, a text file or a fixed-width comment or they collapse into rubble. Second, a piece of text art is not a symbol — it is many ordinary characters including spaces and line breaks, which is why this page's breakdown lists the characters used rather than a single code point. Copying from the tiles preserves the exact spacing and line breaks.
Examples in use
- Signing a forum post with the cat
- A pine tree in a plain-text Christmas card email
- The fish ><(((º> in a chat message
How to type it
Windows
There is no keyboard shortcut for a multi-character face — it is a string of ordinary characters, not one symbol. Copy it from this page and paste (Ctrl+V). Power users save favourites in a text-expander or in Windows' clipboard history (Win+V).
Mac
There is no Option-key shortcut for a whole face. Copy it from this page and paste (Cmd+V), or save it in System Settings → Keyboard → Text Replacements to type it from a short code.
iPhone & Android
Copy the face from this page and paste it into any chat or bio. On iPhone, Settings → General → Keyboard → Text Replacement turns it into a shortcut; on Android, Gboard's personal dictionary does the same.
Linux
Copy and paste works everywhere. In GTK apps you can also build a face character by character with Ctrl+Shift+U code-point entry, using the breakdown table above.
Frequently asked questions
Why does text art look broken when I paste it?
Almost always a proportional font. The picture needs monospace — every character the same width. Paste it into a code block (Discord, Reddit, GitHub), Notepad, or any fixed-width setting and the lines snap back into shape.
What is the difference between text art and kaomoji?
Kaomoji are small faces read in one line. Text art draws whole pictures, usually over several lines. They are cousins — both are plain-text drawing.
Can I use text art in a username or bio?
Multi-line art needs line breaks, which most usernames and bios forbid. Single-line pieces like the fish work in bios; save the multi-line pictures for posts, comments and documents.
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Data: Unicode Character Database · Page updated 2026-11-13