• 17 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Spider

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

ASCII Spider

\ \ / / \ \.-./ / `--(o o)--' .-----.--( )--.-----. | YOUR WORDS | '---------------------'Spider on your words6 lines, 24 wideReady to copy

17 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 4

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

ASCII spider pieces drawn for this page: 17 originals, seen from above, from the front and on threads, with two webs, a spider in eight boots and one in a top hat.

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Spider text art, from above and head-on

Spider, top view shows a head with two eyes, a round body and four legs each side. Big spider, bent legs is the front view, 30 columns wide. Spider web, fan of threads is the tallest piece: five long threads and four rows of cross threads in 11 lines.

Spider ASCII art with a sign

Spider on your words rests its back legs on a board. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 21 with the padding, and keep the line the same length so the board stays closed.

  • A spider made from keyboard symbols needs only slashes for legs: Squash-proof spider is two rows, eight characters each, with no space.
  • Squash-proof has six pieces, three of them one-liners. Why spaces fold.
  • Halloween spiders and a web of eight threads are on Halloween ASCII art.

Questions and answers

How do you make a spider out of keyboard symbols?

Type two slashes, two backslashes, two lowercase o's in parentheses, then two slashes and two backslashes again. That is Spider with bent legs, twelve characters on one row.

How many legs does a spider have?

Eight: Wikipedia's Spider article calls spiders eight-limbed arthropods that breathe air. Spider, top view, Spider on the ceiling and Spider in eight boots show all eight; some smaller pieces show fewer.

Which spiders hang from a thread?

Three pieces: Spider swinging on silk, on a slanted thread; Three spiders on threads, each thread longer than the last; and Spider on a silk line, a one-liner with the thread lying flat.

Where does a spider's silk come from?

From spinnerets, which Wikipedia's Spider article says extrude silk. The two webs here are Spider web, fan of threads and Squash-proof spider web, a hub with eight short threads.

All 17 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Spider on your words A spider seen from above, its back legs resting on the top of a board. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 21 with the padding. 6 lines, 24 wide.

One line 3

  • Spider on a silk line A small spider at the end of a long horizontal thread of dashes. 1 line, 20 wide.
  • Spider with bent legs Two eyes in parentheses and two pairs of slashes for the legs each side, all on a single row. 1 line, 12 wide.
  • Three spiders, one line Three tiny spiders side by side, each with two eyes and four legs showing. 1 line, 20 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 4

  • Cute spider, front view Two big round eyes, a small v of a mouth and four legs bent up and out. 4 lines, 17 wide.
  • Squash-proof spider Eyes and legs on the first row, the body and the lower legs on the second. 2 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof spider web A hub with eight short threads around it, five characters to a row. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Squash-proof spider, top Seen from above: legs, a face between two side legs, and legs again. 3 lines, 7 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

  • Big spider, bent legs Seen from the front: tall legs bent at the knee on each side of a round body with two fangs. 6 lines, 30 wide.
  • Spider face, big eyes A close-up face: two small eyes above two large ones, a mouth and the tops of four legs. 6 lines, 17 wide.
  • Spider in a top hat A spider with a tall hat on, two legs up and two legs down on each side. 7 lines, 13 wide.
  • Spider in eight boots A spider standing on all eight legs with a boot on every foot. 6 lines, 17 wide.
  • Spider on the ceiling A spider gripping a ceiling with four legs, the other four out to the sides, eyes at the bottom. 6 lines, 18 wide.
  • Spider swinging on silk A thread slanting down from the top corner to a small spider on the end of it. 7 lines, 10 wide.
  • Spider, top view Seen from above: a head with two eyes, a round body behind it and four legs on each side. 6 lines, 18 wide.
  • Three spiders on threads Three small spiders hanging side by side, each thread longer than the one before. 5 lines, 29 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Spider web, fan of threads Five long threads spreading up from one point, with four rows of cross threads between them. 11 lines, 21 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 Spider (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider) says spiders are air-breathing arthropods with eight limbs and spinnerets that extrude silk. Spider, top view, Spider on the ceiling and Spider in eight boots show all eight legs; other pieces show fewer. 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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