• 17 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Squirrel ASCII

Tap a squirrel to copy it whole; the first one grips a sign you can type on.

Squirrel ASCII

.--. /|___|\ ~ \ ( o o ) ~ | ( >v< ) ~ | .-(_)-U-(_)--'-. | YOUR WORDS | '--------------'Squirrel holding a sign7 lines, 16 wideReady to copy

17 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 6

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 6

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

Text art squirrel pieces in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 17 in all, with the face and its curled tail, full cheeks, a squirrel sitting with an acorn, one on a branch, and acorns alone.

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Two ways to draw it

The face has tufted ears, full cheeks and two front teeth written as a capital U, with the tail curling up behind as a column of tildes. The side view sits upright, its tail taller than its body, paws held out.

Acorns

An acorn is a stalk, a cap and a nut. Squirrel holding an acorn has one in its paws, Squirrel and its acorns sits beside a pile of six, and Small acorn for a squirrel stands alone.

  • The three one-liners work as squirrel emote text art: the shortest, Squirrel on one line, is 9 characters.
  • Squirrel holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 14 with the padding.

Questions and answers

How do you type a squirrel on one line?

Type an at sign and a tilde for the tail, then a face in parentheses: @~(o>v<o) has two eyes and full cheeks around a lowercase v.

What is the biggest squirrel here?

Squirrel on a branch: 11 lines and 28 columns, the sitting squirrel with its acorn on a branch of equals signs and two leaves below. Squirrel and its acorns is the widest at 30 columns.

Which squirrels survive squashed spaces?

The 6 under Squash-proof: three one-liners, a face, a face with its tail and an acorn. None has a line that starts with a space or two spaces in a row.

All 17 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Squirrel holding a sign The face and its tail above a notice gripped by two round paws, front teeth showing between them. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the row holds 14. 7 lines, 16 wide.

One line 3

  • Acorns in a row, one line Three acorns, each a stalk, a cap and a nut. 1 line, 11 wide.
  • Squirrel chasing an acorn The one-line squirrel, three periods, and an acorn drawn as a hyphen, a brace and a parenthesis. 1 line, 19 wide.
  • Squirrel on one line An at sign and a tilde for the curled tail, then a face with two eyes and full cheeks around a lowercase v. 1 line, 9 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 6

  • Small acorn for a squirrel An acorn with a stalk, a cap of number signs and a pointed nut. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Small squirrel face Tufted ears, full cheeks and two front teeth written as a capital U. 4 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof acorn The acorn with a period in each corner. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Squash-proof squirrel face The small tufted face with periods for every gap. 4 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof squirrel tail Face and curled tail on four rows of thirteen. 4 lines, 13 wide.
  • Three squirrel faces Three faces in a row: eyes open, eyes shut and eyes smiling. 4 lines, 29 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 6

  • Squirrel and its acorns The sitting squirrel beside a pile of six acorns. 8 lines, 30 wide.
  • Squirrel asleep Eyes shut under the curled tail, with two letters z above the ears. 5 lines, 13 wide.
  • Squirrel face and tail The face with the tail curling up behind its right ear, a column of tildes for the fur. 5 lines, 13 wide.
  • Squirrel holding an acorn The sitting squirrel with an acorn in its paws. 8 lines, 19 wide.
  • Squirrel sitting Side view, facing right: a tail taller than the body, one ear, a pointed nose and both paws held out. 8 lines, 19 wide.
  • Squirrel with full cheeks The face with each cheek puffed out into a parenthesis of its own. 5 lines, 13 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Squirrel on a branch The squirrel with its acorn on a branch of equals signs, with two leaves hanging under the branch. 11 lines, 28 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. The pieces use two constructions of this site's own: a face with tufted ears, full cheeks and two front teeth written as a capital U, with the tail curling up behind it as a column of tildes; and a side view of the animal sitting, with a tail taller than its body. An acorn is a stalk, a cap and a nut. 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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