• 25 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Sun

Tap a sun, cloud, wave, snowflake or rainbow to copy every line; the first is a sun text art sign.

ASCII Sun

\ | / '. .-"""-. .' --- / \ --- .----'---------'----. | YOUR WORDS | '-------------------'Sun over your words6 lines, 21 wideReady to copy

25 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 4

Small, 2 to 4 lines 6

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 13

Large, 10 lines and up 1

Next step Weather symbols to copy

How it works

ASCII sun pieces and the rest of the sky, drawn for this page: 25 originals, with cloud text art, wave text art, snowflake ASCII art and rainbow text art, from one line to ten.

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ASCII art sun, seven ways

Seven pieces have a sun: a one-liner, a round disc with eight rays, one in sunglasses, one with wavy rays, a sunrise over the sea, a three-row squash-proof sun and the sign. On Sun over your words, type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters.

ASCII art cloud and ASCII wave pieces

Four clouds: a flat-based cumulus, a storm cloud with a lightning bolt, a snow cloud and a squash-proof one. Seven pieces have waves, from two one-liners to Wave breaking on a beach; tildes, periods and quote marks make the crests.

  • Squash-proof has nine pieces with no run of spaces: four one-liners and one each of sun, cloud, wave, snowflake and rainbow. Why spaces fold.
  • Weather characters to copy one at a time are on weather symbols.

Questions and answers

Is there a great wave ASCII art text piece?

Yes. Great curling wave is the tallest piece here, 10 lines by 34 columns: one wave curling over to the left with spray coming off its lip. It is this page's own drawing, not a copy of a painting.

How many arms does a snowflake have?

Six. Wikipedia's Snowflake article says a snowflake's growth often approximates six-fold symmetry, so Snowflake, six arms and Squash-proof snowflake draw one flat pair and two slanting pairs. The five-line crystal has eight spokes and is only a pattern.

Which ASCII cloud is the smallest?

Squash-proof cloud: three rows of eleven characters with periods filling the inside, so no run of spaces can fold. The widest is the flat-based cumulus, 25 columns.

Which color is on the outside of a rainbow?

Red. A primary rainbow's arc is red on its outer part and violet on its inner side, by Wikipedia's Rainbow article. Rainbow in color letters follows that order with R outside, and stops at blue.

All 25 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Sun over your words Half a sun with seven rays rising behind a board. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 19 with the padding. 6 lines, 21 wide.

One line 4

  • Breaking waves, one line Six small breakers leaning the same way, each a slash with a curled lip. 1 line, 19 wide.
  • Rolling waves on one line Four crests, each a quote mark lifted on two tildes, joined along the bottom. 1 line, 25 wide.
  • Snowflake on one line One flake drawn as a star with barbed arms and a knob at each tip, with two specks of snow on either side. 1 line, 19 wide.
  • Sun on one line A capital O in parentheses with an equals sign and three dashes of rays on each side. 1 line, 15 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 6

  • Cumulus cloud, flat base Two humps of different sizes on a wide flat bottom. 4 lines, 25 wide.
  • Squash-proof cloud A small cloud with a hump on top, periods filling the inside. 3 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof rainbow Three arches in color letters, R outside, then Y, then B, with periods filling the gaps and no space in it. 4 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof sun A sun three rows tall with no space in it: rays at the corners and through the middle. 3 lines, 7 wide.
  • Squash-proof wave pattern Three rows of the rolling wave, the middle row shifted so the crests fall between each other. 3 lines, 19 wide.
  • Three rolling waves Three even crests in a row, each rising from the trough of the last. 2 lines, 34 wide.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 13

  • Rainbow in color letters Five arches, each written in the first letter of its color: R, O, Y, G and B. 6 lines, 33 wide.
  • Rainbow, three arcs Three arcs one inside the other, drawn in tildes, dashes and periods. 6 lines, 28 wide.
  • Round sun, eight rays A round disc seven rows tall with a ray at every compass point and every corner. 9 lines, 23 wide.
  • Snow cloud A cloud with three rows of stars and periods falling from it. 7 lines, 17 wide.
  • Snowflake crystal, 5 lines Eight spokes around a star, with the corners tucked in by periods and apostrophes. 5 lines, 9 wide.
  • Snowflake, six arms Six arms from a star in the middle: one pair flat, two pairs slanting, a barb on each. 9 lines, 19 wide.
  • Snowflakes falling One large flake among stars and periods of falling snow. 5 lines, 23 wide.
  • Squash-proof snowflake Six arms from a star, one pair flat and two pairs slanting, a knob on each tip and periods filling the gaps. 5 lines, 9 wide.
  • Storm cloud with lightning A dark-bottomed cloud with one zigzag bolt coming out of it. 8 lines, 17 wide.
  • Sun in sunglasses A sun with a pair of dark glasses and a small smile, rays all the way around. 7 lines, 22 wide.
  • Sun with wavy rays The disc in the middle, with every ray drawn as a curved parenthesis or a tilde. 7 lines, 17 wide.
  • Sunrise over the sea Half a sun on the horizon with two rows of waves in front of it. 5 lines, 23 wide.
  • Wave breaking on a beach A curling wave on the left running up a slope of sand on the right. 6 lines, 33 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Great curling wave One tall wave curling over to the left, hollow underneath, with spray flying off its lip. 10 lines, 34 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02 (four were redrawn on 2026-10-03), 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 25 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Snowflake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake) says the growth of a snowflake often approximates six-fold radial symmetry and speaks of its six arms; the article Rainbow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow) says that a primary rainbow's arc is red on its outer part and violet on its inner side. The rainbow in color letters stops at blue: it has five arches, not seven colors. Squash-proof rainbow has three arches, in the letters R, Y and B. 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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