• 19 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Penguin

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

ASCII Penguin

.-"-. / o o \ /( v )\ .(_)-------(_). | YOUR WORDS | '-------------'Penguin with a sign6 lines, 15 wideReady to copy

19 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 6

Large, 10 lines and up 2

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How it works

ASCII penguin pieces drawn for this page: 19 originals, with a chick, a parent and chick, a huddle of three, a penguin on an iceberg, one in a scarf and two sliding on their bellies.

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Penguin text art, front and side

The front view is a round head, a v for the beak and a white belly inside a dark coat: Penguin, front view is six lines and Big penguin, white belly ten. Penguin, side view faces right, a flipper against its side.

ASCII art penguin with a sign

Penguin with a sign hooks a flipper over each top corner of a board. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 13 with the padding, and keep the line the same length so the board stays closed.

  • Squash-proof has six pieces with no run of spaces, three of them one-liners. Why spaces fold.
  • Penguins among other winter emoji are on winter emojis.

Questions and answers

Can penguins fly?

No. Wikipedia's Penguin article calls them flightless sea birds with flippers for swimming. Every penguin here stands, slides or huddles; none is in the air.

Why do two penguins lie on their bellies?

They are tobogganing: Wikipedia's Penguin article says penguins slide on their bellies across the snow, steering with their feet. Penguin belly slide is three lines and Penguin sliding, one line is 13 characters.

What is the smallest penguin here?

Penguin on one line, seven characters: two eyes and a v of a beak in parentheses with a flipper each side. Small penguin is four lines and five columns.

Why is a penguin's belly white?

Penguins are black on back and wings, white in front, by Wikipedia's Penguin article. The front views here draw the white part as an oval inside the body.

All 19 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Penguin with a sign The flippers hook over the top edge of a board that hides everything below the beak. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 13 with the padding. 6 lines, 15 wide.

One line 3

  • Penguin on one line Two eyes and a v of a beak in parentheses, with a flipper held out at each side. 1 line, 7 wide.
  • Penguin row, one line The one-line penguin three times over, with a gap between each and the next. 1 line, 23 wide.
  • Penguin sliding, one line A penguin flat on its belly with dashes of speed behind it. 1 line, 13 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

  • Penguin and a fish A small penguin looking at a fish drawn with two angle brackets. 4 lines, 10 wide.
  • Penguin belly slide Head forward, feet behind, with two rows of dashes showing the speed. 3 lines, 16 wide.
  • Small penguin A beak pointing right, a round middle between two flippers, and a pair of quote marks for the feet. 4 lines, 5 wide.
  • Squash-proof penguin Head, eyes, beak between two flippers, and feet, five characters to a row. 4 lines, 5 wide.
  • Squash-proof penguin row Three heads with beaks on the first row and three bodies under them. 2 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof penguin, side A head with a beak, a body with flippers, and a row of feet marks. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Three penguins in a huddle Three small penguins shoulder to shoulder, the one on the right facing the other two. 4 lines, 15 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 6

  • Penguin chick, fluffy A round chick with quote marks all over it for the down. 5 lines, 9 wide.
  • Penguin in a striped scarf The front view with a striped scarf across the chest, one end hanging down the right side. 6 lines, 11 wide.
  • Penguin on an iceberg A small penguin standing on a block of ice that floats on the water. 7 lines, 19 wide.
  • Penguin parent and chick A grown penguin with a chick half its height standing next to it. 6 lines, 18 wide.
  • Penguin waving The front view with the right flipper lifted above the shoulder. 6 lines, 12 wide.
  • Penguin, front view A round head, a white belly inside a dark coat, a flipper each side and two feet. 6 lines, 11 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 2

  • Big penguin, white belly The front view at its largest: an oval belly, flippers held away from the body and broad feet. 10 lines, 16 wide.
  • Penguin, side view Facing right: a pointed beak, a flipper against the side and a straight back. 10 lines, 12 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02, shown in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, game or brand is drawn. Drafts that did not read as their subject in the picture were redrawn or left out; the 19 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Penguin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin) says penguins are flightless sea birds with black backs and white fronts, and that they slide on their bellies across the snow, a movement called tobogganing. No penguin from a show, film or logo is drawn. 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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