Ascii Art Repository

Mary Harden Rudisill

Hi y'all. I've been using ascii art to post kitties everywhere. I started this because I noticed that there were certain places in the Community that would replace an emoji at the end of a sentence with a question mark. That can really ruin the intent of a sentence. In replacing a ? with a I remembered the ascii art from my younger days. So I started looking for some cute cat art to share. I found it. Boy did I find it. As full disclosure, I have simply copied these off of the internet. But most, if not all, of them have had a blurb somewhere saying that they were free to distribute without attribution.

So without further ado, let's share❗


One thing that is sad, is that some of these only really work if you can use a font that has uniform spacing.

I've been modifying some to work with the default font of the community since we don't have the option to change the font everywhere.


(ﾐ꒡ᆽ꒡ﾐ)


(ﾐゝᆽ╹ﾐ)


(๑꒡ᆽ꒡๑)


(=ºั ᆽ ºั ฅ


(ﾐゝᆽ･ﾐ)


___,,,^._.^,,,___


=^..^=


(=^ェ^=)


(=◐ᆽ◐=)ฅ


(=•́ܫ •̀=)


=✪ ᆺ ✪=


/ᐠ･㉨･ᐟ \\



.../\\ /\\

(>' . '<)

( U U )



./\\…/\\

(.‘•..•’.)

..=*=..

(.\\.||./.)~~**



¨/\\_/\\ ♥

>^,^<

¨¨/ \\

’(__)__



‎ﺩ／|、

(ﾟ､ 。7

︱ ︶ヽ

_U U c )ノ



../\\_/\\

( °ѫ ° )

The below are all using the "formatted" font.

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|\\\\_,-~/
/ _  _ |    ,--.
(  @  @ )   / ,-'
\\  _T_/-._( (
/         `. \\
|         _  \\ |
\\ \\ ,  /      |
  || |-_\\__   /
((_/`(____,-'

Faith Murray

Mary Harden Rudisill‍, these are all so adorable!! You have broadened my horizons. Everyone has used emojis and text-faces before, but I did not know there was a name and official style of art called ascii art. Too cute!

Mary Harden Rudisill

Yay! You are in for a treat if you start looking this stuff up on the intertubes. There are some masterpieces out there. Here is a "simple" one.

Art by Marcin Glinski

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      /\\     ,/ \\      ;:::::;     ;
    .:. \\:..|    :     ; '.--|     ;
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Mary Harden Rudisill

Ha ha ha ha. I just found this one. This is brilliant!!

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This ASCII pic can be found at
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Heather MacKenzie

Thank you, Mary! I love all the ASCII kitties!

Patti Hommes

This is amazing!!! I am going to have to start experimenting with ASCII Art!

Patti Hommes

Testing the emoji ?

Amy Shaiman

These are great, thanks for sharing them. ?

Mary Harden Rudisill

Aha! Apparently the emoji to question mark is only a problem on comments on our Profile Walls. And it isn't just ending emoji. I just did a test on my profile and it changed a couple of emojis to question marks. ?

Bobby Steurer

The only one I ever learned how to make was Kirby.

<( ‘ ‘ )> <( ’ ‘ <) (> ’ ' )>

Yours are cooler.

Beth Hudson

@Mary Harden Rudisill how neat! I will definitely be searching for more art when I need a brain break!

Miki Martin

I like that you even tried a pup. ? I remember seeing these way back when I was first getting online and thought how talented those who created them had to be! Thanks for sharing!

Cheryl Chadick

I love it! We have two cats and will have to try this. =^..^=

Jennifer Kluh

This is so cool! I'm definitely going to try to replicate. Thank you!