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Cat ASCII Art
Cats are the most-pasted animal in text art, and the small ones are the most useful: a one-line cat fits in a chat message without breaking the flow.
One-line cats are built from brackets and punctuation and survive proportional fonts reasonably well. The drawings below them need monospace, so keep those for code blocks, terminals and README files.
Cat face
=^.^=
Cat face wide
=^..^=
Cat smile
=^_^=
Sleepy cat
=^-^=
Cat kaomoji
(ね◕‿◕)ね
Happy cat
(≧▽≦)
Cat paws
ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Angry cat
(｀Д´)
Cat with whiskers
>ˆ•ˌ•ˆ<
Nyan
～(＾▽＾)～
Cat ears
/\_/\
Sitting cat
/\_/\ ( o.o ) > ^ <
Curious cat
/\_/\
( -.- )
o_(")(")Loaf cat
/\_/\ ( ) ( - ) | |
Sleeping cat
|\ _,,,---,,_ /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_)
Long cat
/\_/\ ( ) | | | | | | (___)
Cat butt
\ /\ ) ( ') ( / ) \(__)|
Peeking cat
/\_/\ _( o.o )_ """"
Cat tail
=^.^=～
Meow
=^.^= meow
Where these work
This page has 20 pieces: 13 single-line and 7 multi-line. The widest is 24 characters across.
The 7 multi-line ones — sitting cat, curious cat, loaf cat, sleeping cat and others — only hold their shape in a monospace font. In Discord that means wrapping them in a code block with three backticks; in a README it means a fenced code block; in a terminal they just work. Paste one into a normal chat message and the rows drift apart.
Questions
How do I post cat ASCII art in Discord without it breaking?
Wrap it in a code block: three backticks, a newline, your art, a newline, three backticks. Discord’s normal message font is proportional, so multi-line art collapses without the code block.
Why do some cats show a box instead of the character?
The kaomoji cats borrow characters from Japanese and Cyrillic blocks. Every current phone and desktop has them, but a very old device or a stripped-down font can miss one and draw a box. The pure-punctuation cats never have that problem.
Can I make my own cat with a text generator?
Not from a drawing, no — but you can turn a photo of your cat into ASCII with the image converter, which is closer to what people actually want.
Make your own
None of these say your name. The text to ASCII generator turns any word into a banner across 133 FIGlet fonts, and the image to ASCII converter turns a picture into text art in your browser. Both are free and neither uploads anything.
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