• 17 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Art Shark

Tap a shark to copy every line of it; the first has a speech bubble you can type in.

ASCII Art Shark

.--------------. | YOUR WORDS | '-v------------' /| _____/ |_____ /| _.-' `-.__/ | <' o ))) _ | `-vvvv-.__ ____.--' `. | \/ `'Shark speech bubble9 lines, 27 wideReady to copy

17 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 6

Large, 10 lines and up 2

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How it works

ASCII art shark pieces drawn for this page: 17 originals, from the side, from above and head-on, with a hammerhead, a whale shark, a tooth, a ring of jaws and a fin off a beach.

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Text art shark one line long

Three pieces are a single row: Shark on one line, 15 characters with a back fin and three gill slits; Shark teeth, one line; and Shark and fish, one line, the same shark behind two small fish.

Shark text art with a speech bubble

Shark speech bubble swims left under a bubble. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 14 with the padding. Shark swimming left is the same shark at full length, 34 columns.

  • For a beach shark with keyboard symbols, copy Shark fin off a beach: a fin on the left, sand and an umbrella on the right.
  • Squash-proof has six pieces with no run of spaces, three of them one-liners. Why spaces fold.
  • Fish and other sea life are on fish ASCII art.

Questions and answers

Is a whale shark a whale?

No, it is a shark. Wikipedia's Whale shark article calls it a slow-moving, filter-feeding shark and the largest known living fish species. Whale shark with spots draws its blunt head and spotted back.

What does a hammerhead shark look like from above?

Wikipedia's Hammerhead shark article says the head is flattened and extended sideways into a hammer shape, with an eye at each end. Hammerhead shark, top view draws that in ten lines.

Which ASCII shark is the biggest?

Shark from above is the tallest at 11 lines. Shark swimming left is the widest at 34 columns: a pointed snout, three gill slits, a back fin and a tall tail.

Are these sharks scary?

They are cartoons. Shark head-on, jaws open and Shark jaws, open wide show rows of teeth, drawn with the letters V and A and with carets; nothing is being bitten.

All 17 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Shark speech bubble A shark swimming left with a speech bubble over its snout. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 14 with the padding. 9 lines, 27 wide.

One line 3

  • Shark and fish, one line A side-on shark closing on a pair of minnows written as angle brackets. 1 line, 23 wide.
  • Shark on one line Seen from the side, nose to the right: a tail, a back fin, three gill slits and an eye. 1 line, 15 wide.
  • Shark teeth, one line A row of teeth, large and small taking turns, between two parentheses. 1 line, 13 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

  • Small shark Four lines, nose to the right: a forked tail, a back fin, gills, an eye and teeth. 4 lines, 14 wide.
  • Squash-proof shark Nose to the left: fins and tail on top, an eye and gills in the middle, teeth below. 3 lines, 12 wide.
  • Squash-proof shark fin A back fin standing out of a row of tildes, with periods for the sky. 3 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof shark jaws A top row of teeth and a bottom row with a line of periods between them. 3 lines, 10 wide.
  • Three small sharks Three two-line sharks, noses to the right, the third below and between the others. 4 lines, 24 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 6

  • Shark fin off a beach A fin in the water on the left; on the right the sand, with a beach umbrella standing in it. 5 lines, 29 wide.
  • Shark head-on, jaws open Seen from the front: two eyes, an open mouth with a row of teeth top and bottom, and a fin out each side. 9 lines, 24 wide.
  • Shark jaws, open wide A ring of jaw seen from the front, teeth pointing in from the top and the bottom. 6 lines, 19 wide.
  • Shark swimming left Nose to the left: a pointed snout, an eye, three gill slits, a back fin, a belly fin and a tall tail. 6 lines, 34 wide.
  • Shark tooth One triangular tooth, point down, with a notched root across the top. 5 lines, 10 wide.
  • Whale shark with spots A long body with a blunt head and rows of spots along the back, nose to the left. 6 lines, 30 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 2

  • Hammerhead shark, top view Seen from overhead: a wide flat head with an eye at each end, two side fins and a forked tail. 10 lines, 20 wide.
  • Shark from above Seen from overhead, nose up: two eyes, a fin out each side and a forked tail. 11 lines, 16 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 17 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Whale shark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shark) calls the whale shark a slow-moving, filter-feeding shark and the largest known living fish species; the article Hammerhead shark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead_shark) says the head is flattened and extended sideways into a hammer shape with an eye at each end. No shark from a film or song 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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