• 21 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Art Lion

Tap a lion to copy all of its lines; the first one holds a sign for your own words.

ASCII Art Lion

.wWWWWWWw. .WW' 'WW. WW o o WW WW \/ WW WW '--' WW .-(")------(")-. | YOUR WORDS | '--------------'Lion holding a sign8 lines, 16 wideReady to copy

21 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 9

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

Lion text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 21 pieces, with the maned face in three sizes, a wink, a roar, a lion asleep, cubs, a lion from the side, and tigers.

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The mane is the letter W

Capital and small letters W make a ring of mane around two eyes, a nose and a short mouth. Lion roaring opens the mouth over four teeth, and Big lion face makes the ring three letters deep.

Tiger text art

Tiger face with stripes has no mane: two pointed ears, five strokes on the forehead and three equals signs down each cheek for stripes. Tigers has 5 pieces, among them a wink and a one-liner.

  • Lion holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 14 with the padding.
  • The cubs have round ears and no mane: Lion cub face, Small lion cub face and Lion and cub.

Questions and answers

How do you type a lion on one line?

Put a small and a capital W each side of a face in parentheses: wW(o\/o)Ww is 10 characters, with a backslash and a slash for the nose.

What is the biggest lion here?

Big lion face: 11 lines and 23 columns. Lion, side view is the widest piece at 27 columns, with four legs and a tail that ends in a tuft.

Which lions keep their shape when spaces are squashed?

The 6 under Squash-proof: three one-liners and three faces of three lines, a lion, a tiger and a cub. None has a line starting with a space.

All 21 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Lion holding a sign The maned face over a notice with a clawed paw on each side of the top edge. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the row holds 14. 8 lines, 16 wide.

One line 3

  • Lion face on one line A face in parentheses with two letters w of mane on each side. 1 line, 10 wide.
  • Lion roaring, one line The one-line face with its eyes squeezed shut and its mouth open, then the word ROAR. 1 line, 14 wide.
  • Tiger face on one line A face in parentheses with a slanted ear and an equals sign for a stripe on each side. 1 line, 10 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

  • Lion peeking over grass The top of the mane and two eyes above a row of grass. 4 lines, 16 wide.
  • Small lion cub face A cub with no mane: two round ears, two eyes and a small nose. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Small lion face A ring of mane three rows tall around a one-line face. 3 lines, 8 wide.
  • Small tiger face Two ears on a flat head, a stripe beside each eye and each cheek. 4 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof lion cub The cub's round ears and face with periods for the gaps. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Squash-proof lion face The small maned face with a period in each corner. 3 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof tiger face Ears, striped cheeks and a nose on three rows of nine. 3 lines, 9 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 9

  • Lion and cub The maned face with a cub's small face beside it. 7 lines, 25 wide.
  • Lion cub face A cub's face with no mane: round ears set wide, two eyes and a small mouth. 6 lines, 13 wide.
  • Lion face in a mane A ring of mane written in the letter W, with two eyes, a nose and a short mouth inside it. 7 lines, 15 wide.
  • Lion roaring Eyes squeezed to angle brackets over an open mouth with a row of four teeth. 7 lines, 15 wide.
  • Lion winking The maned face with its right eye shut to a hyphen. 7 lines, 15 wide.
  • Lion, side view The maned head turned toward you on a long body, with four legs and a tail that ends in a tuft. 6 lines, 27 wide.
  • Sleeping lion face Both eyes shut, with two letters z rising from the top of the mane. 7 lines, 17 wide.
  • Tiger face with stripes Two ears, five strokes on the forehead and three stripes down each cheek. 7 lines, 15 wide.
  • Tiger winking The striped face with its right eye shut. 7 lines, 15 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Big lion face The face at its largest: a mane three letters deep, capital O eyes and a wide mouth. 11 lines, 23 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-03, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, film or game is drawn. The lions share one construction of this site's own: a ring of mane written in capital and small letters W around two eyes, a nose and a short mouth. The cubs have round ears and no mane, and the tigers have two pointed ears and equals signs for the stripes on each cheek, with strokes on the forehead of the two larger ones. 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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