Sloth text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 32 pieces. Sloths hanging from a branch, asleep, waving, swimming and carrying a baby, the face in three sizes, and the claws of a two-toed and a three-toed sloth.
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What makes it a sloth
Wikipedia's Sloth article gives the animal long limbs, a rounded head with tiny ears and long, curved claws. So the heads here are round with no ears, the arms are long, and in 13 pieces a letter m is a set of claws hooked over a branch. A slash on the outer side of each eye is this page's own mark for the face.
Write on the sign
Sloth holding a sign takes 13 characters in place of YOUR WORDS; longer words push the edge of the board out.
Squash-proof has seven pieces with no run of spaces: the four one-liners and three faces of three or four lines.
The sloth emoji is one character, not a drawing. It is on animal emoji.
Questions and answers
How do you type a sloth on one line?
( /o_o\ ) is nine characters: a parenthesis at each end, a slash on the outer side of each eye, the letter o twice and an underscore for the mouth. Put ==m== on both sides and it hangs from a branch.
How many toes does a sloth have?
Three on each back foot, whichever kind it is. By Wikipedia's Sloth article a two-toed sloth has only two digits on each front limb, so the name counts the front. Two-toed sloth claws and Three-toed sloth claws draw one arm of each.
How long do sloths sleep?
Less than the name suggests. Wikipedia's Sloth article puts wild brown-throated three-toed sloths at 9.6 hours a day on average, and says sloths usually sleep hanging from a branch, as in Sloth asleep, hanging.
Can sloths swim?
Yes. Wikipedia's Sloth article calls them surprisingly strong swimmers that paddle with their long arms. Sloth swimming keeps the head above two rows of tildes, with a set of claws up on each side.
All 32 pieces
Your own words 1
Sloth holding a signHanging from a branch by two long arms that end at the top of a board. Type over YOUR WORDS. 8 lines, 25 wide.
One line 4
Sloth asleep on one lineThe face with its eyes shut and three z's drifting off. 1 line, 15 wide.
Sloth face on one lineA slash on the outer side of each eye and an underscore for the mouth. 1 line, 9 wide.
Sloth hanging, one lineThe one-line face between two sets of claws hooked over a branch of equals signs. 1 line, 19 wide.
Sloth, arms out, one lineA digit 3 and a capital E make a hand of three claws at the end of each arm. 1 line, 13 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 11
Baby slothThree rows, with capital O's for the eyes. 3 lines, 7 wide.
Sloth eating a leafA leaf with a vein down the middle, at the corner of the smile. 4 lines, 12 wide.
Sloth swimmingHead above the water and a set of claws up on each side. 4 lines, 24 wide.
Sloth yawningEyes shut and the mouth a capital O. 4 lines, 10 wide.
Small hanging slothUnder the branch this time, holding on with both arms. 4 lines, 13 wide.
Small sloth faceA round head, a slash beside each eye, a nose and a small smile. 4 lines, 10 wide.
Small sloth on a branchLooking over a branch with a set of claws hooked each side of its chin. 3 lines, 13 wide.
Squash-proof hanging slothThe same face under a branch, with a set of claws at each end of it. 4 lines, 9 wide.
Squash-proof sloth faceThree rows of nine with no space in them, quote marks for the fur on top. 3 lines, 9 wide.
Squash-proof sloth, asleepEyes shut, with zZz over the head. 4 lines, 9 wide.
Two sloths on a branchSide by side on one branch: the left one awake, the right one not. 3 lines, 23 wide.
Medium, 5 to 9 lines 11
Sloth asleep on a branchLying along the top of the branch, chin down, with claws hooked over it at both ends. 5 lines, 24 wide.
Sloth asleep, hangingHanging by both arms with its eyes shut and two z's between them. 5 lines, 15 wide.
Sloth climbing a trunkHolding a tree trunk, with three sets of claws showing on its far side. 9 lines, 16 wide.
Sloth faceA wide face with a patch around each eye that slopes down and out. 8 lines, 19 wide.
Sloth hanging by all foursBelly up under the branch, a pair of claws at each end, and the head hanging at one end to look out. 7 lines, 26 wide.
Sloth hugging a heartA heart held to its chest between two sets of claws. 9 lines, 12 wide.
Sloth in a hammockAsleep in a hammock slung between two posts. 6 lines, 26 wide.
Sloth in a party hatThe small face under a cone hat with an asterisk on its tip. 7 lines, 11 wide.
Sloth sittingSitting up, with both long arms down at its sides and the claws on the ground. 8 lines, 17 wide.
Three-toed sloth clawsOne arm from below and three long, curved claws hooked over the branch. 6 lines, 19 wide.
Two-toed sloth clawsThe same grip with two claws, as on the front limb of a two-toed sloth. 6 lines, 15 wide.
Large, 10 lines and up 5
Big sloth faceThe face at full size, with each eye patch drawn as a long stripe. 11 lines, 26 wide.
Sloth hanging by its armsThe whole sloth: two long arms up to the branch and both feet dangling, claws out. 13 lines, 19 wide.
Sloth in a treeA tree with a leafy crown and a sloth hanging from its lowest branch. 10 lines, 26 wide.
Sloth wavingHanging by one long arm and waving three claws with the other. 12 lines, 14 wide.
Sloth with a babyA mother hanging from a branch with a small sloth holding on to her front. 11 lines, 19 wide.
How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-08, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, none is traced from a picture, and no sloth from a named film, show, book or game is drawn. The sloths share one construction of this site's own: a round head with no ears, a slash on the outer side of each eye, a nose in parentheses, and claws written as a letter m where they hook over a branch, as a capital E or a digit 3 where a hand points sideways, and as a slash, a bar and a backslash where it points up or down. What a sloth looks like and the facts on the page were read on 2026-10-08 in Wikipedia's article Sloth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth, CC BY-SA 4.0): sloths have rounded heads with tiny ears and long limbs; their hands and feet have long, curved claws that let them hang upside down from branches without effort; tree sloths hang upside down for most of their lives and usually eat and sleep hanging from branches, though they sometimes sit on top of them; every sloth has three toes on each rear limb, and two-toed sloths have just two digits per forelimb; wild brown-throated three-toed sloths average 9.6 hours of sleep a day; sloths are surprisingly strong swimmers that paddle with their long arms; a litter is one newborn. 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