• 22 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

American Flag Text Art

Tap a flag to copy every line; the first stands on a plate you can type a name on.

American Flag Text Art

|* * * |=============| | * * | | |* * * |=============| | | |====================| +--------------------+ | YOUR NAME HERE | +--------------------+Flag over a nameplate8 lines, 22 wideReady to copy

22 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 2

Small, 2 to 4 lines 2

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 10

Large, 10 lines and up 7

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How it works

American flag text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 22 pieces, lying flat in four sizes, on a pole, waving, hung down a wall, as a heart, a shield and the letters USA. Three hold all fifty stars.

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How the flag is drawn

A row of equals signs is a red stripe, a blank row a white one, and each asterisk a star. The real flag has thirteen stripes and fifty stars in nine rows, six then five in turn. One text row is one stripe, so most flat pieces say not to scale.

The three with all fifty stars

Flag hung down a wall turns the stripes on end, which leaves room for nine star rows. Flag star field, 50 stars is the corner alone, and Fifty flag stars, no gaps the same count with dots between.

  • Type over YOUR NAME HERE on the first piece, 18 characters at most, and pad a shorter line with spaces.
  • Where spaces fold, Squash-proof lists five pieces with no blank to lose. Why spaces fold.
  • The flag as a single emoji is on flag emojis.

Questions and answers

How do I make an American flag out of text?

Stack rows: asterisks and a bar for the star field, equals signs for each red stripe, and a blank row for each white one. Tiny flag, not to scale does it in three rows of 16 characters.

How many stars and stripes are on the American flag?

Thirteen stripes, red and white in turn starting with red, and fifty stars in nine rows where rows of six alternate with rows of five. Big flag, not to scale has all thirteen stripes and room for only 39 stars.

Is there an American flag that fits on one line?

Two. Flag on one line is 18 characters: three stars and one stripe in square brackets. Striped flag, one line is 21 and alternates equals signs and hyphens for the red and the white.

What is the flag with the stars in a circle?

An early arrangement. The 1777 resolution asked for thirteen stripes and thirteen stars and did not say how to place the stars, and some flag makers set them in a circle. Flag with a ring of stars draws that one.

All 22 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Flag over a nameplate A five-stripe flag standing on a plate with a line of text. Type over YOUR NAME HERE, 18 characters at most, and pad a shorter line with spaces. Eight stars, not to scale. 8 lines, 22 wide.

One line 2

  • Flag on one line The star field and one long stripe between square brackets. 1 line, 18 wide.
  • Striped flag, one line Three stars, then equals signs and hyphens in turn for the red and the white. 1 line, 21 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 2

  • Flag bunting Three small flags hanging side by side from one string. Not to scale. 4 lines, 32 wide.
  • Tiny flag, not to scale The least that still reads as the flag: four stars and three stripe rows, red, white, red. 3 lines, 16 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 10

  • Fifty flag stars, no gaps Nine rows of asterisks with dots between them: six, five, six, and so on to fifty. 9 lines, 11 wide.
  • Flag on a short pole A three-stripe flag at the top of a pole with a ball on it and a foot at the bottom. Not to scale. 8 lines, 16 wide.
  • Flag with a waving edge Seven stripe rows whose free end bends in and out, as if the cloth were moving. Not to scale. 7 lines, 27 wide.
  • Medium flag, not to scale Seven stripe rows; the star field holds eighteen stars over the top four. 7 lines, 30 wide.
  • Rippling flag The red stripes drawn as ripples of dots, hyphens and tildes. Not to scale. 5 lines, 28 wide.
  • Slanted flag in the wind A flag seen at an angle: every row starts one column further right. Not to scale. 5 lines, 30 wide.
  • Small flag, not to scale Five stripe rows with eleven stars in a field three rows deep. 5 lines, 26 wide.
  • Squash-proof flag Five stripe rows with nothing left blank: dots between the stars and hyphens for the white stripes, so no space can be lost. Not to scale. 5 lines, 17 wide.
  • Squash-proof flag and pole A three-stripe flag on a pole, drawn so that every line starts at the left edge. Not to scale. 7 lines, 13 wide.
  • USA in stars and stripes The letters U, S and A five rows tall: two rows of asterisks, then equals signs, hyphens and equals signs. 5 lines, 34 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 7

  • Big flag, not to scale All thirteen stripes, seven of equals signs and six left blank, with the star field over the top seven. A text row is one stripe, so only 39 stars fit. 13 lines, 35 wide.
  • Flag hung down a wall The flag hung from a rod with its stripes running down: thirteen of them, the red ones in number signs, and all fifty stars in nine rows at the top left. 18 lines, 28 wide.
  • Flag on a tall pole A five-stripe flag flying from a double-line pole on a wedge base, six rows of bare pole under it. Not to scale. 13 lines, 28 wide.
  • Flag shield A shield with two rows of stars across the top and seven stripes running down to the point. 10 lines, 17 wide.
  • Flag star field, 50 stars The blue corner by itself at full count: asterisks in five rows of six and four rows of five, inside a thin frame. 11 lines, 15 wide.
  • Flag with a ring of stars Thirteen stripes and thirteen stars set in a ring, one of the ways early flag makers arranged them. 13 lines, 35 wide.
  • Heart of stars and stripes A heart filled like the flag: asterisks in the top left lobe, then rows of equals signs and hyphens down to the point. 12 lines, 17 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-01, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and none repeats the flag on a pole or the five other small pieces on the 4th of July emojis page. The flag's parts were read on 2026-10-01 and again on 2026-10-02 in Wikipedia's article Flag of the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States, CC BY-SA 4.0), which describes the flag: thirteen horizontal stripes that alternate, red first then white, and fifty stars in nine offset rows, where rows of six alternate with rows of five. The same article gives the 1777 resolution (thirteen stripes, thirteen stars, no arrangement laid down) and says some flag makers set the stars in a circle. In these drawings a row of equals signs or number signs is a red stripe, a blank row or a row of hyphens a white one, and an asterisk a star. A text row is one stripe, so a flag lying flat has no room for nine rows of stars: those pieces say not to scale, and three pieces carry all fifty. Every flag is drawn whole and plain. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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