The frame
⌐ >
A reversed not sign hooking over the face. Without it the dark blocks are just eyes; with it they are glasses.
Sunglasses and studied indifference
Cool Kaomoji
Cool kaomoji are almost entirely about sunglasses. The ⌐ hooks over the face as a frame and a dark block sits behind it as a lens, and once that shape is in place the expression underneath barely matters. What is left to choose is how the face wears them.
(⌐■_■)
Quick answer
Which one should you use?
(⌐■_■) is the standard cool kaomoji — sunglasses on, expression flat. ( •_•)>⌐■-■ is the deal-with-it version, showing the glasses being put on in three stages. The ⌐ is a reversed not sign used as the frame, and swapping ■ for ▬, ▨ or ► changes the lens shape without changing the effect.
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20 cool kaomoji
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(⌐■_■)
Sunglasses on
The standard. Flat mouth, dark lenses, nothing else needed.
( •_•)>⌐■-■
Putting them on
The deal-with-it sequence: face, hand, glasses.
(⌐▨_▨)
Patterned shades
▨ is hatched, so the lenses read as mirrored.
ヽ(⌐■_■)ノ
Cool and celebrating
Arms up without dropping the act.
(￣▼￣)
Smug
No glasses at all — the ▼ mouth carries it alone.
(⌐■ᴗ■)
Shades and a smile
Warmer than the flat version; still wearing them.
(-_-)ゞ
Salute
The ゞ is a hand at the brow — casual acknowledgement.
(¬ᴗ¬)
Knowing look
Half-lidded eyes above a small smile.
(⌐▬_▬)
Wide shades
▬ is a long bar; the widest lenses available.
(￣ｰ￣)ゞ
Casual salute
A slight smile with a hand raised to the brow.
(⌐■▽■)
Grinning in shades
An open mouth undercuts the glasses, which is the joke.
(o⌐■_■)o
Striking a pose
Fists either side, glasses on.
(⌐►_◄)
Angular shades
Triangular lenses; sharper and more aggressive.
( ⌐■-■)ノ
Waving in shades
A raised hand with a hyphen mouth.
(⌐■_■)ﾉ♪
Cool with music
Glasses, raised hand and a note trailing off.
(￣ω￣)ゞ
Relaxed salute
A soft ω mouth with a hand at the brow.
(⌐■ε■)
Shades and a smirk
The ε mouth adds a suggestive edge.
(▀_▀)
Block shades
Upper half blocks make a single visor instead of two lenses.
(⌐◨_◨)
Half-tinted
◨ is half-filled — glasses catching the light.
(⌐■_■)⌐
Adjusting them
A second ⌐ outside the face becomes a hand on the frame.
How they are built
The parts these faces are made of
Kaomoji are assembled rather than drawn. Once you can see the components, you can adjust any face on this page instead of hunting for a different one.
Lenses
■ ▬ ▨ ► ◄ ◨ ▀
Solid ■ is the default. ▬ is wider, ▨ mirrored, ► angular, and ▀ makes a single visor.
Salutes
ゞ ヾ ノ
A hand raised to the brow: acknowledgement without enthusiasm, which is the same register as the glasses.
Flat mouths
_ - ￣ ▼ ー
Cool depends on the mouth doing nothing. Anything curved undercuts the glasses, and a few faces here do that on purpose.
Before you paste
Getting them to arrive intact
Paste as plain text
Markdown and rich-text editors treat backslashes, underscores and asterisks as formatting. Almost every face here has an underscore mouth, which makes this the most affected collection on the site.
The underscore is the risk
(⌐■_■) contains an underscore, and a pair of them turns the text between into italics. If the glasses arrive as (⌐■■) with the following words slanted, use (⌐■-■) instead, which swaps in a hyphen.
Keep the mouth flat
The glasses do the work, so the expression underneath should not compete. A curved mouth turns the face smug instead of cool, which is occasionally what you want and usually not.
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Faces with a full write-up
Some of these have their own page covering where the face came from and how its meaning has shifted.
(⌐■_■)
Cool Kaomoji
The deal-with-it face, sunglasses lowered into place.
Read the entryಠ_ಠ
Look of Disapproval
Two heavy-lidded eyes staring flatly across a single line.
Read the entryᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
Flex Kaomoji
A determined face with both arms curled into a flex.
Read the entry(^_~)
Winking Kaomoji
One eye closed and one open — a compact text wink.
Read the entry
Questions
Cool Kaomoji FAQ
What is the cool kaomoji?
(⌐■_■) — sunglasses on, expression flat. The ⌐ is the frame hooking over the face and the ■ characters are the lenses. It is the text equivalent of 😎 and reads the same way: pleased with itself, usually as a joke.
What does ( •_•)>⌐■-■ mean?
Deal with it. It shows the glasses being put on in three stages — the face, a hand reaching up, then the shades in place — and is used after saying or doing something the sender is pleased with. It is one of the few kaomoji read left to right as a sequence.
How do you make sunglasses in text?
Put ⌐ in front of two dark blocks: (⌐■_■). The ⌐ is a reversed not sign used as the frame, and any solid geometric character works as a lens — ■ is standard, ▬ is wider, ► is angular, and ▀ makes a single visor.
Why do my sunglasses kaomoji break in Markdown?
The underscore mouth. (⌐■_■) contains one, and Markdown treats a pair of underscores as italics, so the mouth vanishes and the following text slants. (⌐■-■) and (⌐■ᴗ■) avoid the problem entirely.
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