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ASCII Art Donut: Copy and Paste
A ring donut with sprinkles. Below are three sizes you can copy straight to clipboard, plus a downloadable PNG version.
Small (37 cols x 18 lines)
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Medium (55 cols x 26 lines)
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Large (74 cols x 34 lines)
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Donut ASCII art appears in bakery and dessert Discord servers, coffee shop aesthetic communities on Tumblr, and also in programming humor posts where the donut is a recurring shape in coding examples and terminal animations. The ring shape with the hollow center is the defining feature. Medium renders the ring clearly. Small reduces the hole but the circular outline still reads as a donut.
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Frequently asked questions
Is donut ASCII art popular in programming communities?
Yes. The spinning donut (donut.c) is a famous coding demonstration where ASCII characters render a rotating torus in a terminal. Donut ASCII art gets shared in developer communities as a nod to that classic program.
Does the ring hole show at small size?
At small the hole compresses to a small void at the center. Medium and large give the ring proper width with a clearly hollow interior.
Where else does donut ASCII art appear?
Bakery and cafe social media accounts, dessert Discord servers, posts for National Donut Day in early June, and Twin Peaks fan communities where pie and coffee are cultural touchstones alongside donuts.
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