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How do I make a text face?
Start with a mood. Each mood button makes a new face from parts that fit that feeling, and a dozen more appear below it. Click any face you like to copy it.
To build your own, pick one part from each row. A face reads from the outside in: extras, arms, head, cheeks, eyes and a mouth in the middle. Most rows set both sides at once, so the face stays even. Untick "Same eye on both sides" to wink or to mix two eyes.
Found a part you love? Press Keep on its row. Random then changes everything else and leaves that part alone. This is the quickest way to find the right arms for a pair of eyes you already like.
Recipes to try
Each button loads a mood into the maker. The faces next to them are examples of what you can get.
| Mood | Example | Parts that make it |
|---|---|---|
| ヽ(｡◕‿◕｡)ﾉ | Raised arms, round eyes and a smile | |
| (˶♡ε♡˶) | Heart eyes, a kiss mouth and pink cheeks | |
| ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ | A bear head with ears and a snout | |
| ┻━┻ ︵(ಠ益ಠ)︵ ┻━┻ | Glaring eyes, gritted teeth and flipped tables | |
| (｡╥﹏╥｡) | Eyes with tear lines and a wavy mouth | |
| (⌐■_■) | Sunglasses made of two black squares |
Where do the parts come from?
Every part is a normal Unicode character, picked for its shape. The bear snout ᴥ is a small Latin letter. The angry eyes ಠ come from Kannada, a language of southern India. The gritted teeth 益 are a Chinese character that means "gain". Because they are text, the faces paste anywhere you can type, with no image to upload.
A few parts are combining marks, like the eyebrows in the Lenny face. A mark has no width and sits on the character before it, so it can shift a little in another app or font. The maker warns you when your face uses one.
Why does my face lose a part on Discord?
Discord and Reddit use Markdown. They treat _ and * as formatting and hide them, so an arm or a mouth can vanish. Tick "Copy for Discord and Reddit" and the maker adds a backslash before those characters. The face then shows up just as you built it.