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The emoticon dictionary is full of information about emoticons. You want to know more about emoticons? Then I try to help out, with some interesting facts.

• Every day we use emoticons, they help us to express our feelings in the world wide web.

  The word emoticon is a combination of emotion and icon.

  In specific circles you have also the term emotes, which is also a synonym for emoticons.

There are various types of emoticons.

Text emoticons for example, you can create easily with your keyboard. There are lot of variations for text emoticons, western style emoticons are not the same like Japanese emoticons.

This is a fact from the different symbols and letters in asia and the western hemisphere.

Today most text emoticons, converted into small images like in messengers, chats, blogs or web forums. These small images are also called emoticons or emotes.

• Help: You may use your browser’s find function (usually CTRL+F on a PC or CMD+F on a Mac). Just type the word you’re looking for.

Abbreviations

• The internet have his own slang, you found many shorthand words, like:

  afk – away from keyboard

  Some messengers use abbreviations and transform them also into emoticons.

Animation

• The animation is used in image emoticons and will give an emoticon life.

  In an animation there many single frames in a row, everyone with a delay, to get a liquid animation.

  The animation allows you to tell little stories with emoticons or capture an expression, in a perfect way.

  For example:
  

  Never forget that an emoticon should be easy recognizable. You’ve only seconds and this time is important, if you succeed with your emoticon or fail.

  So don’t confuse people, with to large animations, where they did not know, what the emoticon represent.

Arabic Emoticons

• The Arabic emoticons are a variation of text emoticons and written in arabic letters. Read the arabic emoticons horizontally.

  You see, if you’re creative, you could design out of every letter or symbol new emoticons.

Colons

• Colons are used in web forums and online communities, to add image emoticons into your message.

  So you have a massive choice of emoticons, almost every mood could represented as an image emoticon.

  For example you wrote :smile: and get this image emoticon

Delay

• The Delay is the time between single frames in an animated emoticon. If you vary it you have different results for the same animation.

Emoji

• Emoji are symbols which look like image emoticons and was invented in Japan for mobile phones.

  Translated from Japanese the word Emoji means “Picture Character“.

  Emoji show emotions, characters and objects. The Unicode Consortium set the standard for Emoji.

  Today you can use Emoji on almost every smartphone. The Emoji are implanted as font. So the symbols can vary on Apple, Windows, Google, Twitter or Facebook.

Emote

• Emote is a term for an image emoticon. An emote have most of the time, a base of 15×15 pixel and is drawn pixel by pixel.

  Emotes replace text based emoticons in online communications.

  Example: You type :) and you get

Emoticon

• Emoticons there are text emoticons and there are image emoticons.

  Both of them represent a mood or feeling for the world wide web. Most of the time text emoticons converted into image emoticons.

  The image emoticons are often round in shape and can come in a variety of colours.

Emoticonist

• People which create image emoticons, called emoticonist.

Frame

• A frame is a single image that is used in an animated emoticon. In every single frame you have one position of the emoticon.

  If you set the single frames together, the emoticon move the way you wanted.

Image Emoticons

• Image emoticons converted out of text emoticons today in almost every single messenger, chat, blog or web forum.

  Most online communities have there own unique emoticon set, to express your feelings and moods in your chats.

  For example you type a smiling text emoticon :) and it will appear an image emoticon

Japanese Emoticons

• Japanese emoticons are known as Kaomoji. Typical for the emoticons is that the eyes represent the expression.

  You don’t need to move your head to the left to recognize the emotion. The emoticons are written in 2-byte letters.

  So you’ve slightly more options, to create new emoticons.

Kaoani

• Kaoani is a term for Japanese image emoticons, also known as KAO’s. The speciality is that these images are floating

Kaomoji

• Kaomoji is a term for Japanese text emoticons, also known as Japanese emoticons.

Pixel Art

• Most image emoticons, are made with pixel art.

  This means every emoticon is created, pixel by pixel. There are different basic layouts in different sizes, but the most used and best fitted base is the 15×15 pixel body.

  If you use the 15×15 pixel body you don’t destroy, the flow of reading to much.

Professor Scott Elliott Fahlman

• Prof. Scott Elliot Falman is the father of the electronic text emoticon.

  On 19.September 1982 Scott Elliot Fahlman has create the smile emoticon :-) and sad emoticon :-( for a computer science board.

  He explained to read the characters sideways. To mark a joke the people should use :-) to mark things that are not jokes they should use :-(

Shading

• The shading is the basic layout of an emoticon. The way you shade an emoticon, have a visual impression on the emoticon.

  For example I show you this smile emoticon:

  You’ll see that every shading, have another effect on the look of the emoticon. In this animation you see twenty different shadings.

Smiley

• A smiley is similar to an emoticon, however there are some slight differences.

  Smileys are generally slightly larger in size than emoticons and are most commonly yellow in colour.

  Another common feature are individual hands and feet, which are not often used within emoticons.

Smiley Maker

• People that creates smileys as opposed to emoticons, is known as a smiley maker.

Static

• A emoticon should be easily recognizable. The best of what you can do is to capture the expression you want to show, in one single frame.

  For sure this is one of the hardest parts to show with one single frame in such a small canvas all the details.

  But if you reached the goal you’ve a amazing piece of art.

Text Emoticons

• Text emoticons are a great way to express, our actual moods in a simple way.

  Just combined some signs and letters, you’ve so many options to create text emoticons.

  The best fact is that you can use them everywhere all the same it’s a Pc, Mac, cellular Phone or Tablet.

  You may also use them in every conversation you start no matter it’s in a mail, sms, messenger, chat, tweet, reply and so on.

  Around the world wide web you can use text emoticons to connect each other.

  A simple text emoticon :) let everyone know you’re smiling in this moment.

  I’ll give you an simple list with the common used text emoticons, here at Gomotes you may use for your conversations.

Western Style Emoticons

• Western style emoticons are also a variation of text emoticons, they are written in 1-byte letters.

  Move your head to the left to recognize the emoticons. You can also use a nose in emoticons.

  For example a smiling text emoticon :) just add a hyphen :-) or a circle :o) to display the nose.

  There are tons of variations and interpretations of single text emoticons. Just be creative and made your own text emoticons.

• You missed something or still have questions to emoticons? Let me know it. Thanks.
  Last update: 06th April 2015