How it works
Fox text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 21 pieces, with the masked face in three sizes, a kit, a sly wink, a fox asleep, one peeking out of its den and one sitting up.
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What makes it a fox
Wikipedia's Fox article lists a triangular face, pointed ears and a bushy tail. The face here is two pointed ears on a flat crown, narrowing to a capital V for the nose. Two slanted lines run from the eyes toward the nose and mark the edge of the muzzle; Big fox face shows them at their longest.
Cute fox text art
Cute foxes has three: a kit with capital O eyes, a fox with ringed eyes and blush on its cheeks, and one in a scarf.
- Fox holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 15 if you type over the padding.
- For sly fox text art, Sly fox with a wink shuts one eye and Sly fox face, one line narrows both.
- Squash-proof has six pieces with no run of spaces: three one-liners, two faces and a fox with a kit.
Questions and answers
How do you make an ASCII fox on one line?
Type a backslash, a caret, two periods, a caret and a slash: \^..^/ is a face that narrows downward under two ears. Angle brackets outside it add cheek fur, as in Fox face on one line.
What is a baby fox called?
A cub, pup or kit, by Wikipedia's Fox article, which gives vixen for the female. Fox kit face is five lines tall, and Fox family on one line has a vixen and two kits.
What is the biggest fox here?
Fox looking up at grapes is the tallest at 11 lines. Big fox face and Fox sitting, front view are 10 lines each, and the big face is the widest of the three at 21 columns.
Why does my fox look broken after I paste it?
The slanted lines only meet in a monospaced font that keeps every space; elsewhere, pick a Squash-proof piece. The cat ASCII art page explains why.