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Lenny Face
The Lenny face is built out of combining characters, which is why it looks like a raised eyebrow rather than a row of punctuation.
The trick is U+0361, a combining double inverted breve — a mark designed to arch over two letters at once. Here it arches over the eyes and becomes eyebrows. That also means Lenny depends on your font handling combining marks properly, and a few do not.
Lenny face
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Lenny wide
( ͡°͜ ʖ ͡°)
Lenny narrow
(͡°͜ʖ͡°)
Lenny angry
( ͡¬ ͜ʖ ͡¬)
Lenny sad
( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡•)
Lenny surprised
( ͡ʘ ͜ʖ ͡ʘ)
Lenny sunglasses
( ͡■ ͜ʖ ͡■)
Lenny stars
( ͡★ ͜ʖ ͡★)
Lenny hearts
( ͡♥ ͜ʖ ͡♥)
Lenny shrug
¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
Lenny flip
( ╯͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Lenny arms up
\( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)/
Lenny pointing
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)つ
Lenny squad
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Lenny sleepy
( ͡- ͜ʖ ͡-)
Lenny no mouth
( ͡° ͜ ͡°)
Where these work
This page has 16 pieces: 16 single-line and 0 multi-line. The widest is 33 characters across.
Everything on this page is a single line, so there is nothing to align and nothing to break. These paste correctly into chat, bios, usernames, commit messages, spreadsheet cells and form fields alike.
Watch the width on mobile. Anything past roughly 35 characters wraps on a phone screen, and a wrapped piece of text art reads as a mistake rather than a joke.
Questions
Why does Lenny render as separate characters on my phone?
Combining marks need font support to sit on top of the character before them. Most current fonts handle it; a few older Android system fonts draw the mark beside the character instead, which pulls the face apart.
Is Lenny safe to paste into a form or a username?
Often not — combining marks are the first thing input sanitisers strip, because they are also how people build glitch text. Expect it to survive chat and fail in a signup form.
Where does the name come from?
It spread through forum culture around 2012 and the name stuck to the face rather than any particular person. The characters themselves are ordinary phonetic notation.
Make your own
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