• 18 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Text Art Owl

Tap an owl to copy all of it; the first is perched on a sign you can type on.

Text Art Owl

/\_____/\ / _ _ \ | {o} {o} | | \_/ | \ v v v / .--m-----m--. |YOUR WORDS | '-----------'Owl perched on a sign8 lines, 13 wideReady to copy

18 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 7

Large, 10 lines and up 2

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How it works

Owl text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 18 pieces, with the owl in three sizes, winking, asleep, with wings spread, in a tree hollow, on a branch and under the moon.

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What makes it an owl

Two ear tufts joined by a flat crown, and eyes written as a letter o in braces. Under them sit a small hooked beak and rows of the letter v for chest feathers. Big owl, front view rings each eye instead.

Owls doing something

Owl with wings spread lifts a wing on each side. Owl in a tree hollow looks out of a round hole in a trunk, and Owl under the moon sits on a branch below a crescent.

  • For owl small text art, Small owl is four rows of seven and Squash-proof small owl is three.
  • Owl perched on a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS; the row holds 11.

Questions and answers

How is an owl made from keyboard symbols?

Carets or slashes make the ear tufts, braces around a letter o make each eye, and a lowercase v is the beak. On one line that is ^{o}v{o}^, 9 characters.

What is the biggest owl here?

Big owl, front view: 11 lines and 19 columns. Owl under the moon is 10 lines and 21 columns, with three asterisks and two plus signs for stars.

Can I paste an owl into a comment?

16 of the 18 pieces carry the Fits a comment box badge, which means at most 8 lines and 30 columns. The two large owls do not.

Why does my owl look crooked after I paste it?

A text owl needs a monospaced font and every one of its spaces. Where spaces get squashed, use one of the 6 Squash-proof pieces; the cat ASCII art page explains the cause.

All 18 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Owl perched on a sign The owl sits on the top edge of a notice, a foot either side of the middle. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the row holds 11. 8 lines, 13 wide.

One line 3

  • Owl face on one line A caret for each ear tuft, eyes in braces and a lowercase v for the beak. 1 line, 9 wide.
  • Owl hooting, one line The one-line face followed by its call, written twice. 1 line, 17 wide.
  • Three owls on one line Three faces in a row; the middle one has both eyes shut. 1 line, 29 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

  • Fluffy owlet A young owl drawn as a ball of colons, with feathers still standing up all round. 4 lines, 9 wide.
  • Small owl Ear tufts joined by a flat crown, eyes in braces, a chest of three feathers and two feet. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Small owl, winking The small owl with its right eye shut. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Squash-proof owl pair Two small owls joined by a column of periods, the second asleep. 3 lines, 15 wide.
  • Squash-proof small owl Tufts, eyes and chest on three rows of seven. 3 lines, 7 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 7

  • Owl in a tree hollow A face looking out of a round hole in a trunk, with strokes of bark around it. 6 lines, 19 wide.
  • Owl winking The front view with its right eye shut to a hyphen. 7 lines, 11 wide.
  • Owl with wings spread The owl with a wing lifted on each side, two long feathers showing in each. 7 lines, 21 wide.
  • Owl, front view Two ear tufts on a flat crown, eyes in braces under two brows, a hooked beak and five chest feathers. 7 lines, 11 wide.
  • Sleepy owl Both eyes shut and two letters z rising from the right ear tuft. 7 lines, 14 wide.
  • Squash-proof owl, tall The front view on five rows of eleven, every gap a period. 5 lines, 11 wide.
  • Two owls on a branch Two owls side by side with their feet on one branch of equals signs. 7 lines, 24 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 2

  • Big owl, front view The owl at its largest: each eye a capital O inside a ring, with a beak between the rings and three rows of chest feathers. 11 lines, 19 wide.
  • Owl under the moon The owl on a branch at night, under a small crescent, three asterisks and two plus signs. 10 lines, 21 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. Most of the pieces share one construction of this site's own: two ear tufts joined by a flat crown, eyes written as a letter o in braces, a small hooked beak and rows of the letter v for chest feathers, with a letter m for each foot. 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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