Smiley

Cultural/Communication

El icono original de cara redonda amarilla creado por Harvey Ball en 1963, que inspiró el diseño de los modernos emoji de caras.

The smiley face — a yellow circle with two dot eyes and a curved mouth — was designed by Harvey Ball in 1963 for an insurance company's employee morale campaign. It became a cultural icon of the 1970s and beyond.

When emoji were first designed for mobile phones, the smiley face was the natural template for face emoji. The yellow skin tone used for default emoji is a direct reference to the classic smiley.

Today, "smiley" is sometimes used colloquially to refer to any face emoji, though strictly it refers to the classic 🙂 or 😊 designs.

Términos relacionados

Emoticón Emoticón
Representación de una expresión facial mediante caracteres del teclado estándar, como :-) o :D, que precede a los emoji gráficos.

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