• 30 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Eyes

Tap an eye to copy every line of it; the first pair looks over a sign you can type on.

ASCII Eyes

.-"""-. .-"""-. / .-. \ / .-. \ | ( @ ) | | ( @ ) | .---------------------. | YOUR WORDS | '---------------------'Eyes over a sign6 lines, 23 wideReady to copy

30 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 4

Small, 2 to 4 lines 8

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 14

Large, 10 lines and up 3

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How it works

Eyes text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 30 pieces, from a pair on one line to a ten-line eye with lashes, wide open, sleepy, angry, worried, winking, crossed and behind glasses.

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How these eyes are built

The eyeball is an outline of quote marks, hyphens and periods. The iris is a pair of parentheses, and the pupil inside is an at sign, a letter o, a number sign or a smaller pair of parentheses. Moving the iris changes the look: left for a side glance, up for an eye roll, inward for crossed eyes.

Write on the sign

Eyes over a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 21 if you type over the padding. Keep the line the same length so the board stays closed.

  • Squash-proof has seven pieces with no run of spaces: three one-liners, an eye, a pair, eyeglasses and sleepy eyes.
  • Crazy eyes holds three: crossed on one line, a mismatched pair and a hypnotized pair of rings.
  • The emoji and its side-eye relatives are on eyes emoji; single eye characters are on eye symbols.

Questions and answers

How do you make ASCII eyes on a keyboard?

Type a lowercase o inside parentheses, twice. With angle brackets for the corners that is <(o)> <(o)>, Eyes on one line. Put a space on the outside of each o, ( o)(o ), and the eyes cross.

Is there an ASCII art eye on its own?

Seven, under One eye: a three-line almond, a squash-proof one, an eye with lashes, one with a teardrop, a round eyeball, a round eye under a raised brow and Big eye, long lashes, which is 10 lines by 31 columns.

Is there eye emoji ASCII art here?

Emoji-style side eyes draws that look in keyboard characters: two tall ovals with the pupils pushed to the left edge, 6 lines by 13 columns. The emoji itself is on the eyes emoji page.

What is the biggest pair of eyes here?

Big eyes, wide awake: 10 lines by 35 columns, two round eyes with a brow of equals signs over each. It needs a monospaced font and a box at least 35 characters wide.

All 30 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Eyes over a sign A staring pair peeps over a placard. Swap in a message of up to 21 characters between the bars. 6 lines, 23 wide.

One line 4

  • Crossed eyes, one line Both pupils pushed toward the nose: a space on the outside of each letter o. 1 line, 8 wide.
  • Eyes glancing, one line Three pairs in a row: the pupils sit left, then center, then right. 1 line, 32 wide.
  • Eyes on one line Each eye is a lowercase o in parentheses between two angle brackets for the corners. 1 line, 11 wide.
  • Winking eyes, one line An open almond beside a hyphen in parentheses. 1 line, 11 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 8

  • Eyes behind glasses Square frames with a bridge of underscores and a temple arm sloping off each side. 4 lines, 25 wide.
  • Eyes peeking over a ledge Two half circles side by side on a long ledge, a capital Y between them. 3 lines, 19 wide.
  • Pair of small eyes The three-line almond eye twice, a space apart. 3 lines, 23 wide.
  • Small eye, three lines An almond outline with pointed corners and an at sign in parentheses for the iris. 3 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof eye Periods fill the white either side of the iris, so nothing collapses. 3 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof eyeglasses Round frames of slashes with a capital O in each lens and an equals sign for the bridge. 3 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof pair of eyes Two eyes that share a middle wall, a period either side of each pupil. 3 lines, 13 wide.
  • Squash-proof sleepy eyes The squash-proof pair with both lids down: each closed eye is a backslash, an underscore and a slash. 3 lines, 13 wide.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 14

  • Angry eyes Two brows slope down to the middle over a pair of small round eyes. 6 lines, 18 wide.
  • Crazy eyes, hypnotized Ring inside ring inside ring, with an at sign for the whirl in the middle. 5 lines, 23 wide.
  • Crazy eyes, mismatched One large eye and one small one, the smaller sitting lower. 5 lines, 19 wide.
  • Emoji-style side eyes Two tall ovals with the pupils, drawn as number signs, pushed to the left edge. 6 lines, 13 wide.
  • Eye with a teardrop The iris sits low against the bottom lid and one drop hangs under the inner corner. 8 lines, 15 wide.
  • Eye with lashes Four lashes stand above the upper lid; the iris is a ring with an at sign inside. 6 lines, 15 wide.
  • Eyes looking left Both irises pressed against the left rim of the eyeball. 5 lines, 25 wide.
  • Eyes rolling upward Both irises tucked under the top rim, the lower half of each eyeball left blank. 5 lines, 25 wide.
  • Eyes through a mail slot A long frame with a pair of eyes looking out of it. 5 lines, 23 wide.
  • Round eyeball, front view The whole ball as a circle, the iris a smaller ring in its center. 7 lines, 17 wide.
  • Sleepy eyes, half closed Equals signs fill the top half of each eyeball as a lowered lid. 5 lines, 25 wide.
  • Wide-open eyes Two round eyeballs, each iris dead center with white all around it. 5 lines, 25 wide.
  • Winking eyes, one shut A round open eye beside a closed one: a curved lid with four lashes under it. 5 lines, 24 wide.
  • Worried eyes The brows rise to the middle and drop at the outer ends. 6 lines, 18 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 3

  • Big eye, long lashes The largest single eye: three rows of lashes fan out over an almond lid, with a pupil inside a wide iris. 10 lines, 31 wide.
  • Big eyes, wide awake The big browed eye twice, side by side; the widest piece here. 10 lines, 35 wide.
  • Big round eye, raised brow A brow of equals signs arched over a round eye whose iris has a number sign for the pupil. 10 lines, 17 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book or game is drawn. An eye here is an outline of quote marks, hyphens and periods around an iris in parentheses, with an at sign, a letter o, a number sign or a pair of parentheses for the pupil. 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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