• 20 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Duck

Tap a duck or a goose to copy every line; the first floats beside a sign you can type on.

ASCII Duck

.-. .------------. ( o )= | YOUR WORDS | \`-..-' ) '-----.------' \ (( / | `-.___.-' | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Duck beside a sign6 lines, 29 wideReady to copy

20 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 2

Small, 2 to 4 lines 8

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

ASCII duck pieces drawn for this page: 20 originals, sixteen ducks and four geese, with a duckling, a rubber duck, a duck under an umbrella and geese flying in a V.

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Small duck text art, and bigger

The smaller side-view ducks share one build: a round head, one eye and an equals sign for the flat bill. Small duck, side view is three lines; Duck, side view adds a wing and water; Big duck, side view has a broad bill and stands 11 lines tall on two feet.

Small goose text art, long neck and all

Four pieces are geese. Small goose, four lines puts the head on a slanted neck; Goose, side view stands eight lines; Goose head, honking says HONK; Geese flying in a V has seven birds.

  • A duck made with keyboard symbols and no spaces? Squash-proof duck and two more are built for boxes that fold spaces. Why.
  • On Duck beside a sign, type over YOUR WORDS: 10 characters, or 12 with the padding.
  • The duck as an emoji is on duck emoji.

Questions and answers

Is there a duck face with keyboard symbols?

Yes, two. Duck face with a flat bill is five lines: two eyes over three equals signs in parentheses. Squash-proof duck face is three rows of seven characters.

Which duck ASCII art fits on one line?

Two pieces: Duck on one line, 12 characters with water each side, and Duck family, one line, three ducklings behind a larger duck in 24 characters.

What is a group of flying geese called?

A skein, a team or a wedge, by Wikipedia's Goose article, which also says geese fly in a V formation. Geese flying in a V draws seven of them with the leader at the top.

Why is one duck upside down?

It is dabbling. Wikipedia's Duck article says dabbling ducks feed as far down as up-ending reaches, without going fully under, so Duck dabbling, tail up shows only the tail.

Is there an ASCII goose with its neck up?

Goose, side view: eight lines, a small head and bill on a long neck that curves up from a heavy body, with two feet under it.

All 20 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Duck beside a sign A duck on the water next to a sign on a post. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 12 with the padding. 6 lines, 29 wide.

One line 2

  • Duck family, one line Three small ducklings in a row behind a larger duck, every bill pointing right. 1 line, 24 wide.
  • Duck on one line A tail, a head with one eye and a flat bill, floating on a line of tildes. 1 line, 12 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 8

  • Duck footprints, a trail Webbed marks in the mud: three toes joined by a line of skin, each one ending in a heel. 4 lines, 23 wide.
  • Duckling, front view A small round duckling facing you, bill in the middle, stubby wings out and two feet. 4 lines, 8 wide.
  • Geese flying in a V Seven geese in a V, the leader at the top. 4 lines, 27 wide.
  • Small duck, side view Three lines: a head with a flat bill, a round body and a tail flicked up. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Small goose, four lines A head with a flat bill, a slanted neck of two slashes, and a body with its tail flicked up. 4 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof duck Head, body with a wing, and a line of water, with no space in it. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Squash-proof duck face A round crown, an eye at each side of the head, and a flat bill of three equals signs in parentheses. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Squash-proof duck family Three ducks in a row over one line of water, with no space in it. 3 lines, 14 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

  • Duck dabbling, tail up Head under the water and only the feathered tail showing, with ripples each side. 5 lines, 17 wide.
  • Duck face with a flat bill Two round eyes above a bill written as three equals signs in parentheses. 5 lines, 11 wide.
  • Duck sitting on a nest A duck settled on a nest of crossed straws. 6 lines, 13 wide.
  • Duck under an umbrella A duck holding an umbrella over its own head by the hooked handle. 7 lines, 16 wide.
  • Duck, side view A round head, a flat bill, a folded wing and a pointed tail, on two lines of water. 7 lines, 13 wide.
  • Goose head, honking A head and neck in profile with the bill open and HONK written in front of it. 7 lines, 21 wide.
  • Goose, side view Standing: a small head, a long neck curving up from a heavy body, and two feet. 8 lines, 17 wide.
  • Rubber duck with bubbles A bath duck on the water with three bubbles floating up beside it. 5 lines, 18 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Big duck, side view The duck at its largest, standing: a broad bill, a big oval wing and two feet. 11 lines, 23 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02 (one was redrawn on 2026-10-03), shown in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, game or brand is drawn. Drafts that did not read as their subject in the picture were redrawn or left out; the 20 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Duck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck) says dabbling ducks feed as far down as up-ending lets them reach, never going fully under, and that a duckling is a young duck still in down; the article Goose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose) says geese fly in a V formation and that a group of geese in flight is called a skein, a wedge or a team. 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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