Thirty pieces of hacker ASCII art, drawn for this page in keyboard characters: terminals with prompts, a login box, a hooded figure at a laptop, padlocks, a server rack and ones and zeros falling down a screen. They run from one line to ten.
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The screen look, nothing else
As hacking ascii art goes, this set stays with what a film puts on a monitor: prompts, progress bars, locks and binary. The figure in the hood has no face. No skull, no mask and no real program appear, and the text on the screens says only connecting, loading and hello.
Type your own line
The first two pieces take your words. Hacker terminal box and Hacker status line each hold 14 characters where it says YOUR TEXT HERE. Pad a shorter line with spaces so the right-hand wall stays where it is.
Eight pieces are squash-proof: three one-liners, the three-line prompt, the binary block, the small padlock, the server rack and the firewall.
The green is not in the text. Color comes from the app or terminal you paste into.
Hacker binary, one line is 01101000 01101001, the ASCII codes 104 and 105, which are the letters h and i. The binary block and the falling columns are patterns and spell nothing.
Can I paste these into a README or a code comment?
Yes. All 30 are plain keyboard characters. Ten contain a backslash, which a box that reads Markdown may swallow, so put three backticks on the line above and the line below. The cat page has the details.
How full is the loading bar?
Ten of its sixteen cells are filled, and the label beside it says 62%. Change hash signs to hyphens, or back, and retype the number to move it. Keep sixteen cells and the box stays closed.
All 30 pieces
One line 3
Hacker binary, one lineTwo bytes of binary that spell hi in ASCII. 1 line, 17 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker network cableA plug at each end of one long cable. 1 line, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker prompt, one lineA user at home, a dollar sign and a blinking cursor. 1 line, 14 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Small, 2 to 4 lines 7
Hacker binary blockFour rows of ones and zeros with dots between them where spaces would be. 4 lines, 17 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker flash driveA stick of memory with its two-slot plug on the right. 4 lines, 16 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker padlock, smallA small closed padlock: a shackle over a body with a keyhole, and no spaces to squash. 4 lines, 4 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker prompt, three linesThree short lines after prompts, the last with a cursor, and no spaces to squash. 3 lines, 8 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker signal arcsTwo arcs of signal over a dot. 4 lines, 16 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker status lineOne boxed line with an OK flag in square brackets. Type over YOUR TEXT HERE, 14 characters at most. 3 lines, 26 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker terminal boxA terminal box with two lines after prompts. Type over YOUR TEXT HERE, 14 characters at most, and keep the right-hand wall in place. 4 lines, 24 wide. Keyboard characters only.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 19
Hacker bugA beetle from above: two antennae, six legs and a line down its back. 6 lines, 11 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker chipA processor with five legs along each side and CPU printed on it. 7 lines, 15 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker falling binarySix columns of ones and zeros with gaps in them, as if dropping down a screen. 8 lines, 21 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker firewallA wall of bricks, four courses high. 5 lines, 16 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker floppy diskA disk with its metal shutter at the top and a label below. 6 lines, 14 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker key, uprightA key standing on end: a round bow, a long shaft and two teeth. 7 lines, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker keyboardTwo rows of keys and a space bar between two wide keys. 5 lines, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker laptopAn open laptop with a prompt on the screen and two rows of keys. 9 lines, 22 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker loading screenA terminal with a progress bar a little past half way. 5 lines, 26 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker login boxA login form: a guest user, a hidden password and an Enter button. 7 lines, 23 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker magnifying glassA lens held over two digits of binary. 5 lines, 10 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker monitor with codeA monitor on a stand showing three lines of made-up code. 7 lines, 22 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker network of nodesSeven boxes joined in a tree: one on top, two under it, four at the bottom. 5 lines, 17 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker padlock, closedA padlock with a tall shackle, a keyhole and a bolt under it. 7 lines, 11 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker padlock, openThe same padlock with one leg of the shackle lifted clear. 8 lines, 13 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker server rackFour units in a rack, each with vents and two lights, the last light blinking. 9 lines, 14 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker shield with a tickA shield with a check mark across it. 7 lines, 9 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hacker terminal windowA window with three buttons in its title bar, a line typed and a line answered. 7 lines, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Hooded hacker, smallJust the hood and shoulders, the face an empty shadow. 5 lines, 9 wide. Keyboard characters only.
Large, 10 lines 1
Hooded hacker at a laptopA figure seen from the front, face lost in the hood, with a laptop open in front. 10 lines, 22 wide. Keyboard characters only.
How this list was compiled: Every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-09-30 and looked at in a monospaced font; none is copied from an archive or another site. The set is the screen look and nothing more: terminals with prompts, a login box, a laptop, a hooded figure whose face is an empty shadow, padlocks, a key, a shield, a bug, a server rack, a network, a wall of bricks, hardware, and ones and zeros. There is no skull, no mask, no named group, game, film or program, no working command and nothing made to look like a real warning or a demand. The text on the screens is harmless on purpose: connecting, loading, say hello. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E, so a column is one character wide. The one-line binary is the ASCII codes 104 and 105, the letters h and i; the other rows of digits are patterns and spell nothing. 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