• 21 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Cow

Tap a cow, goat, pig or sheep to copy all of it; the first cow holds a sign.

ASCII Cow

/) (\ ( '-.____.-' ) .-.| o o |.-. '-'| |'-' | .----. | |( o o )| .-(_)------(_)-. | YOUR WORDS | '--------------'Cow holding a sign9 lines, 16 wideReady to copy

21 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 4

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

Cow text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 21 pieces, with cows from the front and the side, a bull with a nose ring, a bearded goat, pigs and sheep in at-sign wool.

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Goat ASCII art and a bull

Goat face with a beard has two tall horns that lean outward, ears held sideways and a beard under a narrow chin. Bull with a nose ring is the cow's face with longer horns turned up at the tips and a ring under the muzzle.

Text art pig and sheep

Pig face, front view has folded ears and a round snout with two nostrils; Pig, side view adds a curled tail. The sheep text art frames a face in at signs for wool.

  • For goat text art in a narrow box, Small goat face is four rows and 7 columns.
  • Cow holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 14 with the padding.

Questions and answers

How is a cow made of keyboard symbols?

A slash and a parenthesis make each curved horn, a period and hyphens each ear, and a letter o each eye and nostril. On one line that is /)(o__o)(\, 10 characters.

What is the biggest cow here?

Cow in a meadow: 10 lines and 32 columns, the side-view cow on grass with a rail fence behind. Cow, side view alone is 7 lines and 24 columns.

Which farm animals are on this page?

Cows and a bull, goats, pigs and sheep, each with a group of its own. Horses are on the horse ASCII art page.

Is there a cow, a pig and a sheep on one line?

Yes. Cow, pig, sheep on a line puts the three one-line faces in a row, 31 characters long. Each face is also a piece of its own.

All 21 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Cow holding a sign The cow's face over a notice with a hoof on each side of the top edge. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the row holds 14. 9 lines, 16 wide.

One line 4

  • Cow face on one line A curved horn on each side of a face with a wide mouth line. 1 line, 10 wide.
  • Cow, pig, sheep on a line The three one-line faces in a row: cow, pig, sheep. 1 line, 31 wide.
  • Pig face on one line Ears written as q and p, with a two-hole snout in parentheses between the eyes. 1 line, 10 wide.
  • Sheep on one line A small face with two at signs of wool on each side. 1 line, 9 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

  • Small cow face Horns on a flat poll, an ear either side of the eyes, and a muzzle. 3 lines, 10 wide.
  • Small goat face Two swept-back horns, a narrow face and a pointed beard. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Small pig with a snout Two pointed ears, two eyes and a snout in double parentheses. 4 lines, 8 wide.
  • Small sheep in wool A face ringed with at signs, standing on two short legs. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Squash-proof cow face Horns, eyes and muzzle on three rows of eight. 3 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof pig snout Pointed ears, eyes and a two-hole snout on three rows of eight. 3 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof sheep The small sheep with a period in each corner. 3 lines, 7 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

  • Bull with a nose ring Longer horns that turn up at the tips, and a ring hanging from the muzzle. 9 lines, 16 wide.
  • Cow face, front view Curved horns on a wide poll, an ear either side of the eyes, and a broad muzzle with two nostrils. 7 lines, 16 wide.
  • Cow with a patch The face with a patch of number signs over its left eye. 7 lines, 16 wide.
  • Cow, side view The cow facing you with its body side-on: two patches, an udder between the legs and a tail with a tuft. 7 lines, 24 wide.
  • Goat face with a beard Two tall horns that lean outward, ears held out sideways, and a beard under a narrow chin. 9 lines, 16 wide.
  • Pig face, front view Two folded ears, small eyes, and a round snout with two nostrils. 7 lines, 14 wide.
  • Pig, side view A pig facing left: a flat snout, one ear, a long back and a curled tail written as an at sign. 5 lines, 22 wide.
  • Sheep in at-sign wool A face framed in at signs for wool, with ears out sideways and two legs below. 7 lines, 13 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Cow in a meadow The side-view cow on a line of grass, with a rail fence behind its tail. 10 lines, 32 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-03, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, film or game is drawn. Each animal has a construction of this site's own: the cow has curved horns on a wide poll, an ear either side of the eyes and a broad muzzle with two nostrils; the goat has tall horns and a pointed beard; the pig has folded ears and a round snout; the sheep is a face framed in at signs for wool. 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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