• 18 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Koala Text Art

Tap a koala to copy every line of it; the first holds a sign you can type on.

Koala Text Art

.--. .--. ( "" '-...-' "" ) '-/ o o \-' | (#) | .-(_)---^---(_)-. | YOUR WORDS | '---------------'Koala holding a sign7 lines, 18 wideReady to copy

18 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 2

Small, 2 to 4 lines 4

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 7

Large, 10 lines and up 4

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How it works

Koala text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 18 pieces, with the face in three sizes, a koala hugging a trunk, asleep in a fork, waving, with a joey, and peeking around a tree.

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What makes it a koala

A koala is known by its round, fluffy ears and large, dark nose, so fourteen of the pieces draw both: round ears with quote marks for the fur in them, and a number sign in parentheses for the nose. Three short ones write each ear as an at sign.

Write on the sign

Koala holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 15 if you type over the padding. Keep the line the same length so the board stays closed.

  • Squash-proof has five pieces with no run of spaces: two one-liners and three faces of three lines.
  • One-line bear and koala faces in other characters are on bear kaomoji.

Questions and answers

Is a koala a bear?

No. The koala is a marsupial whose closest living relatives are the wombats, and Wikipedia's Koala article calls the name koala bear inaccurate. Text bears are on the ASCII bear page.

What are the leaves in the koala pictures?

Eucalyptus leaves, which make up most of a koala's diet. Three pieces have them, each leaf a pair of angle brackets: a one-liner, Koala with a leafy sprig and Koala's sprig of leaves.

How long does a koala sleep?

Up to twenty hours daily, by Wikipedia's Koala article. Koala asleep in a fork shows it: eyes shut, a paw on each branch and two z's above.

What is the smallest koala here?

Koala face on one line, 11 characters: an at sign for each ear and a nose in parentheses between two eyes. Squash-proof koala, small is three rows of seven.

All 18 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Koala holding a sign The board sits under the chin with a paw gripping it either side of the mouth. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 15 with the padding. 7 lines, 18 wide.

One line 2

  • Koala and leaves, one line The one-line face, three periods, and a row of leaves written as angle brackets. 1 line, 26 wide.
  • Koala face on one line An at sign for each fluffy ear, two eyes, and a nose in parentheses between them. 1 line, 11 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 4

  • Small koala face Three lines: two tufted ears, eyes either side of a dark nose, and a chin. 3 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof koala face Tufted ears, eyes and nose on three rows, with dots filling the corners. 3 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof koala, branch The small face with two paws hooked over a branch of equals signs. 3 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof koala, small Ears drawn as at signs on a seven-character face. 3 lines, 7 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 7

  • Koala face, front view Round fluffy ears wider than the head, small eyes and a large dark nose. 6 lines, 17 wide.
  • Koala peeking around a tree Half a face showing from behind a trunk, one paw on the bark. 7 lines, 16 wide.
  • Koala waving The face with one paw lifted beside it. 6 lines, 20 wide.
  • Koala with a joey A koala with a small one looking over its shoulder. 7 lines, 24 wide.
  • Koala with a leafy sprig A koala holding up a sprig with four leaves on it. 6 lines, 24 wide.
  • Koala's sprig of leaves No animal, only its dinner: one stem with five leaves, one at the tip and four below it, left and right in turn. 6 lines, 9 wide.
  • Two koalas side by side Two faces next to each other, ears touching. 6 lines, 34 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 4

  • Big koala face The face at its largest: fur marked inside each ear and a nose two rows deep. 11 lines, 31 wide.
  • Koala asleep in a fork Eyes shut in the fork of a tree, a paw on each branch and two z's above. 10 lines, 20 wide.
  • Koala hugging a tree trunk Sitting against a trunk with both arms around it; two paws show on the far side. 11 lines, 25 wide.
  • Koala sitting, front view The whole animal sitting up: the face over a round body, arms folded in and two feet in front. 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 no koala from a named show, book or game is drawn. Fourteen of them share one construction of this site's own: two round ears with quote marks for the fur inside them, and a number sign in parentheses for the nose. The two one-liners and the smallest squash-proof face write each ear as an at sign, and one piece is a sprig of leaves alone. All 18 were looked at and kept. What a koala looks like and the three facts on the page were read on 2026-10-02 in Wikipedia's article Koala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala, CC BY-SA 4.0): it is a marsupial, sometimes inaccurately called the koala bear, whose closest living relatives are the wombats; it is easily recognizable by its fluffy round ears and big dark nose; the leaves of Eucalyptus trees make up most of its diet; it sleeps up to twenty hours a day; its young are known as joeys. 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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