ASCII Art

House ASCII Art

A pitched-roof house with a single window, six lines tall.

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Try House ASCII Art

Edit it here, then change the font and size.

Font
16px

About this entry

What it is

A pitched-roof house with a single window, six lines tall.

Moving announcements, home posts and README section headers.

Copy & use

How to copy and use house ascii art

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    Copy the complete value

    Use the copy button above so the value is captured without its label, description or surrounding page text.

  2. 02

    Paste it where you need it

    Moving announcements, home posts and README section headers.

  3. 03

    Check the final result

    Monospace fonts preserve the intended spacing. Use fenced code blocks or preformatted text in apps that collapse repeated spaces, and check backslashes when pasting into source code.

Read the drawing

How this house ascii art works

A slash-and-backslash roof widening over three rows, closed by underscores, with a pipe-walled body beneath it. The window is a bracket pair, which reads as glass because it is the only enclosed shape inside the walls.

Copy it without breaking the spacing

Each roof row must be exactly one character wider on each side than the row above, or the pitch skews. The walls must be the same width as the roof base or the house appears to float.

Practical ideas

Where to use house ascii art

  • 01

    Moving announcements

  • 02

    Home and property posts

  • 03

    README section headers

Make your own variation

Add wall rows for a taller house, and windows by replacing interior spaces with bracket pairs. Widening means extending the roof and the walls together.

Common questions

Using house ascii art

What is house ascii art?

A pitched-roof house with a single window, six lines tall. Moving announcements, home posts and README section headers.

How do I copy house ascii art without breaking it?

Use the copy button so the whole value is captured, including the spaces, line breaks and less common characters that hold its shape together. Paste it as plain text: editors and chat apps that read Markdown can treat backslashes, underscores and asterisks as formatting and remove them, and auto-correct may replace straight quotes or collapse repeated spaces.

Will house ascii art work everywhere?

Monospace fonts preserve the intended spacing. Use fenced code blocks or preformatted text in apps that collapse repeated spaces, and check backslashes when pasting into source code.

Can I customise house ascii art after copying?

You can add a short label, repeat compatible symbols or trim the design to fit. Keep important spaces, line breaks and uncommon Unicode characters intact while editing.

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