• 16 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Elephant

Tap an elephant to copy every line; the first one rests its trunk on a sign you can type on.

ASCII Elephant

__ .---. __ / \ / \ / \ ( ( o o ) ) ( ( _ ) ) \__/ \ (=) / \__/ .------'(=)'------. | YOUR WORDS | '-----------------'Elephant holding a sign8 lines, 19 wideReady to copy

16 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 2

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 7

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

Elephant ASCII art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 16 pieces of elephant text art, with the face in three sizes, tusks, a wink, a baby, and the whole animal walking, lifting its trunk and spraying water.

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The trunk is a stack of rings

Seen from the front, each ring of the trunk is an equals sign in parentheses, and the tip turns to the right. A round ear sits either side of a domed head. Elephant face with tusks adds a curved tusk on each side.

The whole animal

Elephant walking faces left with its trunk hanging and curled at the tip. Elephant, trunk raised lifts it over the head, Elephant spraying water adds a spray of drops, and Elephant walking away shows the back view.

  • Elephant holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS; the row holds 17.
  • Squash-proof has 5 pieces with no run of spaces: two one-liners, a face, a baby and a pair.

Questions and answers

How do you make a baby elephant from keyboard symbols?

Baby elephant is four rows: periods and hyphens for two ears wider than the head, (o o) for the eyes, and two rings of (=) for a short trunk. It is 15 columns wide.

How do you type an elephant on one line?

Two opening parentheses, an o, a capital J, an o and two closing parentheses: (( o J o )) has ears, eyes and a trunk in 11 characters.

What is the biggest elephant here?

Big elephant face: 12 lines and 31 columns, with wide ears and a trunk of six rings. No other piece is taller than 9 lines.

All 16 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Elephant holding a sign The trunk comes down onto the top edge of a notice. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the row holds 17. 8 lines, 19 wide.

One line 2

  • Elephant on one line Double parentheses for the ears and a capital J for the trunk between two eyes. 1 line, 11 wide.
  • Elephant parade, one line Three elephants in a line, each a tail, a body, an eye and a trunk. 1 line, 23 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

  • Baby elephant A baby's face: ears wider than the head and a short trunk. 4 lines, 15 wide.
  • Small elephant face Two ears, two eyes and a ringed trunk that turns to the right at its tip. 4 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof baby elephant The baby's face with periods for every gap. 4 lines, 15 wide.
  • Squash-proof elephant face Ears, eyes and the top of the trunk on three rows of eleven. 3 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof elephant pair Two small faces joined by a column of periods. 3 lines, 23 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 7

  • Elephant face with tusks The face with a curved tusk on each side of the trunk. 9 lines, 19 wide.
  • Elephant face, front view Round ears either side of a domed head, and a trunk of four rings that curls to the right at the tip. 9 lines, 19 wide.
  • Elephant spraying water The trunk is up and a spray of drops falls from its tip. 9 lines, 26 wide.
  • Elephant walking Side view, facing left: a hanging trunk that curls at the tip, a large ear, four legs and a small tail. 7 lines, 22 wide.
  • Elephant walking away Seen from behind: two ears, a round back, a tail down the middle and two hind legs. 6 lines, 21 wide.
  • Elephant winking The front view with one eye, the right one, shut to a hyphen. 9 lines, 19 wide.
  • Elephant, trunk raised The walking elephant with its trunk lifted over its head. 8 lines, 26 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Big elephant face The face at its largest: wide ears and a trunk of six rings. 12 lines, 31 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. The pieces use two constructions of this site's own: a face seen from the front, with a round ear either side of a domed head and a trunk drawn as a stack of rings, each an equals sign in parentheses; and a side view of the animal walking to the left, with its trunk hanging down or lifted. 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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