How it works
Coffee text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 20 pieces, from an espresso cup to a steaming mug, with a pot, a press, a machine, beans and a cup to go.
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ASCII art coffee cup, mug or glass
Cups first: Coffee cup on a saucer is wide with a small handle, Espresso cup, small is four lines, Latte in a tall glass has three layers and Coffee cups, three sizes stands S, M and L in a row. Big coffee mug, steaming is the tallest, 11 lines.
Coffee cup text art with your name on it
Your coffee mug takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 14 with the padding. Keep the line the same length so the side of the mug stays straight. Coffee cup to go already says COFFEE on its sleeve.
- Is this coffee made from keyboard symbols alone? Yes: parentheses for steam, number signs for the coffee, tildes for the surface.
- Squash-proof has six pieces with no run of spaces, three of them one-liners. Why spaces fold.
- The cup as an emoji is on coffee emoji.
Questions and answers
Is this coffee text art copy paste ready?
Yes. Tap a card and every line of that piece is copied, line breaks included. Paste it where the font is monospaced; in other fonts the two sides of a mug drift apart.
What is the smallest ASCII coffee here?
Coffee cup, one line: ten characters, a slanted cup with a handle between two underscores of saucer. The smallest with steam is Squash-proof coffee cup, three rows.
What is in a latte?
Espresso and steamed milk are its main ingredients, by Wikipedia's Latte article. Latte in a tall glass shows three layers: foam in tildes, milk in dots and coffee in number signs.
Which pieces are not cups?
Eight: a coffee pot, a press with its plunger up, a stovetop pot, a machine with a mug under it, a single bean, a sack of beans, and two rows of beans, one of them squash-proof.