Draw an ASCII Art Smiley
Print a ready-made ASCII smiley face. Runs entirely in your browser, so your data never leaves your device.
Output
The result appears here as you type.
How to use Draw an ASCII Art Smiley
- 1. Choose a face. Pick Happy, Sad, Wink, Surprised or Cool from the Face setting to select which expression the tool should generate for you.
- 2. See the face drawn. The tool draws the chosen expression using a small fixed set of ASCII characters for eyes and mouth, arranged inside a simple border.
- 3. Copy the smiley. Copy the finished face from the output pane and paste it into a chat message, comment or signature wherever plain text is expected.
When to use Draw an ASCII Art Smiley
Draw an ASCII Art Smiley prints a ready made emoticon built entirely from plain text characters, the kind used in chat messages and comments before image based emoji existed. Pick an expression and get a small, portable face that renders correctly in any plain text context.
- Adding personality to a plain text chat. A terminal chat client, IRC channel or SMS message does not render image emoji. Picking a face here gives you an expressive character that works in any plain text environment.
- Signing off a commit message or code comment. A developer wants a lighthearted touch at the end of a commit message or comment without pulling in an emoji character. Generating a Wink or Cool face here fits naturally into plain text.
- Decorating a terminal script's output. A script prints a friendly message when a task finishes successfully or fails. Adding a Happy or Sad face to the output makes the result more immediately readable at a glance.
- Recreating classic internet emoticon style. You're building a retro themed page or nostalgia project referencing early internet chat culture. Generating one of the classic faces here captures that era's plain text emoticon style.
Examples
Happy face
Output
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About the Draw an ASCII Art Smiley tool
Draw an ASCII Art Smiley is a free online tool that works entirely inside your web browser. Print a ready-made ASCII smiley face. Because the processing happens on your own device, nothing you enter is uploaded, logged or stored anywhere.
This page is one of 81 ASCII utilities on EditSafely. Each one does a single job well, and all of them follow the same rule: your input stays on your machine.
You can shape the output with the Face setting, and the result refreshes the moment you change it. A worked example further down the page shows exactly what the tool produces for a real input.
Because nothing leaves your device, the tool is suitable for sensitive content such as internal documents, credentials or customer data. It also responds instantly, since every keystroke is handled on your own machine rather than by a remote API.
Frequently asked questions
Is Draw an ASCII Art Smiley free to use?
Yes, it is completely free. All 2,658 tools on EditSafely work without an account, a subscription or usage limits.
Does the generator send anything to a server?
Everything happens locally. Your browser downloads the tool's code once, then does all the processing itself; nothing you enter is transmitted, stored or logged. You can even go offline after the page loads and it will still work.
How do I get a different result?
Run the generator again. Each run is computed fresh on your device, and any options you change are applied to the next result immediately.
Do I need to sign up or install anything?
No. The tool works in any modern browser on desktop, tablet or phone. There is no account to create, no extension to add and no software to install.
How do I use the result?
The output panel has a one-click copy button, and you can keep refining the input while you work; the result updates in place as you type.