Charles Ball talked about the history of the Smiley Face symbol. In 1963, the original version of the Smiley Face symbol was created in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Charles Ball's father, graphic ...

For decades, this feel-good symbol has encouraged millions to smile. The happy face and “Have a Nice Day “ helped to define the ‘70s. With two dots and a pencil stroke, schoolchildren have ...

The smiley face is an international, ubiquitous, and well-loved symbol of joy and good cheer in our 21st Century world. The smiley face is part of a phenomenon known as a "pareidolia." ...

The ubiquitous yellow smiley face symbol was created in 1963. Found out the story of this amazingly simple but effective morale booster.

EVERYONE KNOWS the ingredients of a smiley face: the egg-yolk circle, the black oblong eyes, the curved grin. It has pervaded pop culture since the 1960s, when hippies stickered it onto VW buses ...

Here's Microsoft's full explanation: Outlook uses Word as its authoring tool. Previously, we automatically changed “:)” to a smiley face character in the font face WingDings.

His creation, a smiling yellow face, bore a striking resemblance to Ball’s smiley. Unlike Ball, Loufrani recognized the marketing potential of the symbol and promptly secured a French trademark.

An original Harvey Ball smiley face (image: The World Smiley Foundation) In the 1994 Robert Zemeckis film, Forrest Gump stumbles into the history books as he runs across the country. At one point ...

In 1963, the original version of the Smiley Face symbol was created in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Charles Ball’s father, graphic artist Harvey Ross Ball.