• 18 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Turkey ASCII

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

Turkey ASCII

_.-._.-._ / \ \|/ / \ ; \ (o o) / ; \ \ \V/ / / .---'-( 8 )-'---. | YOUR WORDS | '---------------'Turkey holding a sign7 lines, 18 wideReady to copy

18 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 2

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How it works

Turkey ASCII pieces drawn for this page: 18 originals. Twelve are turkeys, their tracks and a tail feather; six are happy Thanksgiving text art, with a pie, a pumpkin, corn and a roast.

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ASCII art turkey, front and side

Seven of the twelve turkeys share one build: tail feathers of slashes fanned behind the head, a capital V for the beak and an 8 under it for the wattle. Big turkey, tail fanned is the largest at 12 lines; Turkey, side view faces right.

Turkey text art with your words

Turkey holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 15 with the padding. Keep the line the same length so the board stays closed. For a greeting, Squash-proof Thanksgiving is three rows with no run of spaces.

  • Looking for a turkey drawn with keyboard symbols only? All 18 pieces use the 95 printable ASCII characters and nothing else.
  • Emoji for the holiday are on Thanksgiving emojis.

Questions and answers

Is there Thanksgiving one line text art?

Yes, three one-liners: Thanksgiving greeting line, which says HAPPY THANKSGIVING between two stars; Turkey on one line, a face with feathers fanned both sides; and Turkey tracks, one line.

What Thanksgiving ASCII art is here besides turkeys?

A roast turkey on a platter, a pumpkin pie with steam, a ribbed pumpkin, a corn cob in its husk, and two greetings that say HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

Which Thanksgiving keyboard symbols make the turkey?

Slashes and backslashes for the tail feathers, parentheses for the head and body, a lowercase o for each eye, a capital V for the beak and the digit 8 for the wattle.

What hangs under a turkey's beak?

A wattle, also called a dewlap. Wikipedia's Turkey article labels it in its picture of a turkey's head and throat, and puts the snood on the forehead. Here the wattle is the 8 under the beak; no piece draws a snood.

When is Thanksgiving?

In the United States it is a federal holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, by Wikipedia's article on the holiday.

All 18 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Turkey holding a sign A turkey with its tail fanned, standing behind a board. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 15 with the padding. 7 lines, 18 wide.

One line 3

  • Thanksgiving greeting line HAPPY THANKSGIVING in capitals with a star and two tildes at each end. 1 line, 26 wide.
  • Turkey on one line A face with a V for the beak, and tail feathers of slashes and parentheses fanned on both sides. 1 line, 15 wide.
  • Turkey tracks, one line Four three-toed prints in a row, each a less-than sign on a stalk of two dashes. 1 line, 18 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 4

  • Squash-proof Thanksgiving HAPPY THANKSGIVING between two small turkeys, with a row of tildes above and below and no run of spaces. 3 lines, 30 wide.
  • Squash-proof turkey The face in the middle row, tail feathers above it and the wattle below. 3 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof turkey, small Five characters to a row: feathers, face, wattle. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Turkey tracks, two rows Four three-toed prints, left and right feet taking turns across the page. 3 lines, 22 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

  • Thanksgiving corn cob An ear of corn with rows of kernels and the husk peeled back on both sides. 9 lines, 12 wide.
  • Thanksgiving pumpkin A ribbed pumpkin with a short square stalk, no face cut into it. 8 lines, 17 wide.
  • Thanksgiving pumpkin pie A whole pie in its dish, the crust crimped along the rim and steam rising. 6 lines, 19 wide.
  • Thanksgiving roast turkey A roast bird on a platter with both drumsticks in the air, a knob on the end of each. 7 lines, 21 wide.
  • Turkey behind a fence The fanned tail and the head show above six fence boards; the wattle hangs between two of them. 6 lines, 20 wide.
  • Turkey in a buckled hat The front view wearing a tall hat with a square buckle on its band. 9 lines, 17 wide.
  • Turkey tail feather One feather standing on its quill, the barbs slanting up from the shaft. 9 lines, 7 wide.
  • Turkey, front view Tail feathers fanned behind the head, a V beak, an 8 for the wattle and two feet. 7 lines, 13 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 2

  • Big turkey, tail fanned The front view at its largest: three rows of tail feathers, a round body and two feet. 12 lines, 21 wide.
  • Turkey, side view Facing right: the tail fanned behind a round body with a wing on it, a long neck, a beak and a wattle under it. 10 lines, 27 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02 (one was 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 18 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Turkey (bird) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)) labels the wattle (dewlap) and the snood in its picture of the head and throat of a turkey, and says the snood is on the forehead; the article Thanksgiving (United States) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)) says Thanksgiving is a United States federal holiday kept on November's fourth Thursday. The 8 under each beak is the wattle; no piece draws a snood. 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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