How to Type Text Face Emoticons with Alt Code? – WebNots (2025)

Did you ever see emoji text face like this ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) in chat conversations? This is a Lenny Face emoji or emoticon created with text characters. However, it is not possible to type some characters like upside down question mark using normal keyboard keys. The solution is to use unicode symbols in different combination and make different type of faces and other symbols. You can use decimal points or hexadecimal points with alt key to create these text faces. In this article, let us explain how to create simple emoji text face using alt code in Windows and option code in Mac.

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Text Face Emoticons with Alt Code

There are two ways to use alt code in Windows. First, let us explain how to create simple lenny face emoticon using decimal code with alt keys. The step by step procedure is given in the below table and you need to use the alt code with separate numeric pad on your keyboard.

As you can see, with few key strokes you can create a beautiful lenny face emoticon ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ). The second method is to use hexadecimal code with alt + x keys as given in the below table.

Typing Text Face Emoji in MacBook

You can use the same hexadecimal codes in MacBook to create the lenny face. However, you first need to change the keyboard input method to Unicode Hex Input. Follow the below steps:

Popular Text Face Emojis

By using different alt or option codes you can create happy, sad, angry and other variations in face expression. However, that will be really a time consuming task and each time you can’t create again. In order to help you, here is a complete collection of emoji text faces with different expressions.

Using Windows 10 Emoji Keyboard

The latest Windows 10 version has Kaomoji symbols included as part of the emoji keyboard. You can press “Win + ;” keys to open emoji keyboard and search for kaomoji text emoticons that are similar to text faces.