Keyboard smileys are expressive faces, or emoticons, made up of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and other keyboard symbols. Western smileys are read sideways, usually with the top on the left; Asian-style smileys are read horizontally. To make a smiley with fangs, the mouth character or characters is changed to suggest protruding teeth. Some applications that convert text strings to small graphical smileys have a fanged or toothed smiley.

  • Keyboard smileys are expressive faces, or emoticons, made up of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and other keyboard symbols.
  • To make a smiley with fangs, the mouth character or characters is changed to suggest protruding teeth.

Type :-[ to make a fanged smiley.

Type >:-[~ to make a scowling vampire with a dribble of blood on his chin.

Type :K to make a snake or vampire with oversized fangs.

Type :E to make a bucktoothed vampire.

  • Type :E to make a bucktoothed vampire.

Type :F to make a vampire with crooked fangs.

Type ^;;^ to make a vampire bat with fangs.

Type (';.;') or (',..,') to make a fanged face with small eyes.

Type (@,.,@) to make a vampire with hypnotic eyes.

Type (,..,) to make a fanged face with stars for eyes.

Type (o,..,o) to make a fanged face with glaring eyes.

Type (=,..,=) (-,..,-) or to make a face with narrowed eyes.

Type (^,..,^) to make a happy vampire.

TIP

Type (^^^) on Facebook chat to get a picture of a fanged shark. For bigger-fanged emoticons, you can use text art (ASCII art). Design your own or use an ASCII art library such as ascii-art.de.

WARNING

Emoticons (smileys) are for fun, informal communication like e-mails to your friends. Avoid using them in more serious messages or academic work.