One line text art objects

Last checked October 30, 2026 by the TextEditor.com team

How a text progress bar works

Each block stands for a share of the work. With 10 blocks, one block is 10 percent. With 20 blocks, one block is 5 percent. The full block █ shows what is done and a lighter shade ▒ shows what is left. Both come from the Block Elements part of Unicode.

People post these bars to show how far along a project is, or as a joke, like "Monday: ██▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 20%". In some fonts the blocks are wider than letters, so the bar can look longer than the text next to it.

How the rose @--`--,--- is drawn

The rose uses only keys on a normal keyboard, so it works in every app and every font. The @ is the flower. The dashes are the stem. The ` and the , stick out from the stem like leaves.

The coffee cup c|_| works the same way. The c is the handle, the | | are the sides and the _ is the bottom.

Objects that need special characters

Other pictures borrow symbols that are not on a keyboard. The chess board ▄▀▄♞▀▄♝▀ uses chess pieces from the Miscellaneous Symbols block. The airplane ‛¯¯oo¯¯(▫▫)¯¯oo¯¯’ uses small white squares for its windows.

One line or many lines?

One line art pastes into any chat, bio or game name and still looks right. Bigger ASCII art spans many lines. It needs a font where every letter has the same width, so it often falls apart on phones. For bigger pictures, see the ASCII art gallery.

More things drawn with text

• ASCII art gallery=^.^=Ready made drawings of cats, hearts and rockets.
• Box drawing characters┌ ─ ┐ │ ╬ █ ▓ ░Lines, corners and blocks for text pictures.
• Faces doing thingsm(_ _)mFaces that run, sleep, bow and do magic.
• Picture to ASCII art@%#*+:.Turns a photo into letters and dots.