How it works
Hands in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 19 pieces, with an open palm, a wave, a peace sign, an OK sign, a hand pointing up, clapping, fists, a fist bump and a 12-line open hand.
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ASCII fist and fist bump
Fists has four pieces of fist text art: knuckles up, held high on a forearm, two fists meeting in a fist bump, and a squash-proof one. Four knuckles run along the top and the thumb folds down the right side.
How the open hand is built
Each finger is a column of bars with an underscore on its tip, and the thumb sticks out low at the side. Open hand, palm out is 6 lines by 11 columns; Big open hand gives each finger its own length and is 12 lines by 16.
- Hands holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 23 if you type over the padding.
- For hands up ASCII, Hands up has three: two raised palms, a squash-proof pair and a row of cheering figures on one line.
- Hand emoji are on hand emojis; one-line thumbs are on thumbs up kaomoji.
Questions and answers
How do you make an ASCII hand?
Draw four fingers as columns of bars with an underscore on each tip, close the palm with a backslash, a row of underscores and a slash, and add a bump at the side for the thumb. Open hand, palm out does it in 6 lines.
Is there an ASCII OK hand?
Yes. OK hand sign is the OK hand text art here, 7 lines by 12 columns: thumb and first finger close into a ring on the left, and three fingers stand up on the right.
Are there ASCII finger guns?
Three. Finger guns, right and Finger guns, left are 7 lines by 15 columns: the first finger points, the thumb stands up and three fingers curl under. Finger guns, both hands sets two side by side.
What is the biggest hand here?
Big open hand: 12 lines by 16 columns, the middle finger tallest and the thumb angled out to the left. Finger guns, both hands is the widest piece at 32 columns.