There are a lot of cartoon-ish smileys now in character sets, but I like the originals, they are gentler and don’t intrude so much. They were transferred to Unicode quite a while ago, and here they are:
| Unicode Hex |
Unicode Decimal |
HTML | |
| ☺ | 263A |
9786 |
☺ |
| ☻ | 263B |
9787 |
☻ |
| ☹ | 2639 |
9785 |
☹ |
Many fonts have them in uneven sizes. “DejaVu Sans”, among many others, do them very well.