Smiley Face Graphic
The grandfather of the modern emoticon was created using the qwerty keyboard symbols. An email message might be embellished with a wink, using the semicolon and right parentheses, as in
, while a grumpy mood might be conveyed with the left parentheses and a colon, like this –
– ending the sentence. These cute keyboard tricks caught on fast, opening the door to the advent of the Smiley Face graphic, the now worldwide universally understood, bright yellow circle with the signature digitized Smiley Face graphic. Although you’ll still see plenty of qwerty keyboard faces in your text emails, the almost too cute Smiley Face has basically taken over the internet universe of personal communications.

