Tips for golfing in Charcoal Charcoal is a language created by ASCII-only and DLosc that specialises in ASCII art challenges.

What tips do you have for golfing in Charcoal? Obviously I am looking for tips related specifically to Charcoal, not those which can be applied to most - if not all - languages.
Take advantage of the deverbosifier

Using the deverbosifier means you can write in ASCII (--dv or --deverbosify to deverbosify, -v or --verbose to execute as verbose code). Furthermore, it compresses strings for you, which can be useful in some ASCII-art challenges when the string to compress is too long.

@Neil recommends using -vl or -v --sl. This is short for --verbose --showlength, meaning it will be interpreted as verbose Charcoal, and the length of the normal Charcoal code will be shown. Also, when deverbosifying, check the output to make sure that the input has actually been parsed correctly, since Charcoal generally ignores parse errors. If there is a syntax error, use -a (--astify) or --oa (--onlyastify) to help figure out the problem.