JAPANESE EMOTICONS.

June 14, 2003 by 3 Comments

An impressive gallery of the many and varied ways Japanese give typographical expression to emotions (“Looking uncomfotable and he wants to leave”), personalities (“Am I pretty?”), actions (“Two people holding glasses and saying ‘Cherrs’ Giving a toast”), and existential states (“Someone wearing sunglasses and with a scar on his face, so he is…who?”). Via Anita Rowland [Friday, June 13, 2003; Anita died in 2007].

Comments

  1. Anita Rowland says
    June 15, 2003 at 11:31 am

    It’s interesting to me that some of these use characters that aren’t just ascii, so I couldn’t duplicate them.

  2. Rana says
    June 20, 2003 at 12:47 am

    Like the John Lennon one!
    They are wonderful, aren’t they?

  3. Lars Mathiesen (he/him/his) says
    March 8, 2025 at 4:37 am

    RIP Anita. Maybe she’s looking at us from somewhere and rejoicing in the fact that Unicode emojis are now a thing so she’d be able to show all of them in her introduction.

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