• 25 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Stick Figure Text Art

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

Stick Figure Text Art

.----------------. | YOUR WORDS | '----------------' \ (o) / \____|____/ | / \Stickman with a sign7 lines, 19 wideReady to copy

25 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 18

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 2

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

Stick figure and stickman text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 25 pieces, standing, waving, cheering, running, sitting, upside down and dancing, alone or in a group, with one figure holding up a sign.

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Dancing ASCII figures

Dancing has six. Dancing man, four steps shows one dancer with arms up, arms out, pointing left and pointing right. The others are a conga line, a pair under two notes, a one-line row, a man with his arms up and a squash-proof one.

ASCII people in a group

People in a group has five: a family of four, two figures hand in hand, a row of five, a crowd wave on one line and a squash-proof trio.

  • Stickman with a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 16 if you type over the padding.
  • For stickman ASCII in a single chat line, Stickman lying down is six characters: o-|--<.
  • Stick figures in small jokes are on funny ASCII art.

Questions and answers

How do you make an ASCII stick man?

Three rows: a lowercase o with a space in front, then a slash, a bar and a backslash for the arms and body, then a slash, a space and a backslash for the legs. That is Stick figure, three lines.

Is there an ASCII dancing man?

Yes. The dancing man text art here is Dancing man, four steps, three lines by 21 columns, and Dancing man, arms up, four lines. Dancing figures, one line sways four dancers left and right.

Is there an ASCII art person sitting or running?

Both. Stick figure sitting is on a chair with a tall back, five lines, and Stick figure running leans forward in four. There are also a handstand, a jump and a figure with a barbell.

What is the smallest ASCII stick figure?

Stickman lying down, six characters on one line. Standing up, Stick figure, three lines is three rows of three characters, and Squash-proof stick figure is the same size with no space in it.

All 25 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Stickman with a sign The arms make a wide V up to a notice above the head. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the row holds 16. 7 lines, 19 wide.

One line 3

  • Dancing figures, one line Four dancers: the arms lean left, right, left, right. 1 line, 15 wide.
  • Stick figure crowd wave Five in a row: arms out, arms up, arms out, arms up, arms out. 1 line, 19 wide.
  • Stickman lying down Seen from the side on one line: a head, arms across the body and two legs. 1 line, 6 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 18

  • Dancing man, arms up Arms thrown up in a V with the head between them. 4 lines, 5 wide.
  • Dancing man, four steps One dancer in four poses: arms up, arms out, pointing left, pointing right. 3 lines, 21 wide.
  • Row of five stick figures The three-line figure five times, a space apart. 3 lines, 19 wide.
  • Squash-proof dancing man One arm up, one arm down, and periods in the gaps. 3 lines, 3 wide.
  • Squash-proof stick figure The plain figure with a period at each corner. 3 lines, 3 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines, continued

  • Squash-proof stickman trio A trio standing with arms down, a period beside each foot. 3 lines, 11 wide.
  • Stick figure and a balloon A balloon of two parentheses on a string held in the right hand. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Stick figure cheering Both arms up beside the head and a row of body under them. 3 lines, 3 wide.
  • Stick figure conga line Four in a line, each with a hand on the one in front. 3 lines, 12 wide.
  • Stick figure family Two taller figures and two shorter ones in a row. 4 lines, 17 wide.
  • Stick figure handstand Upside down: legs in the air, arms on the ground, head at the bottom. 4 lines, 3 wide.
  • Stick figure running Leaning forward with one arm and one leg trailing. 4 lines, 8 wide.
  • Stick figure thinking One hand at the chin and a question mark beside the head. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Stick figure waving One arm raised beside the head. 3 lines, 3 wide.
  • Stick figure, barbell up A barbell held overhead: a capital O at each end of a bar of equals signs. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Stick figure, three lines The plain one: a letter o, a bar between two slashes for the arms, and two legs. 3 lines, 3 wide.
  • Stick figures hand in hand Two of them joined by an underscore between the near hands. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Two stick figures dancing Two with their arms up under the letters d and b, which stand in for notes. 4 lines, 7 wide.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 2

  • Stick figure jumping The cheering pose a row above a strip of ground. 5 lines, 3 wide.
  • Stick figure sitting On a chair with a tall back, legs out in front. 5 lines, 7 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Big stick figure, arms out The largest: a round head with two eyes, arms straight out and long legs. 12 lines, 11 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book or game is drawn. A figure here is a lowercase o for the head, a bar for the body and slashes for the arms and legs; the pose is all in where the slashes point. 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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