Emoticons

This is just to have some fun, not really useful. Except when you need to show that you can do in LaTeX what your ten years old son can do in MS Word.

Edit and compile if you like:

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% Author: Raoul Kessels
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
\PreviewEnvironment{tikzpicture}
\setlength\PreviewBorder{5pt}%
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
% The face style, can be changed
\tikzset{face/.style={shape=circle,minimum size=4ex,shading=radial,outer sep=0pt,
        inner color=white!50!yellow,outer color= yellow!70!orange}}
%% Some commands to make the code easier
\newcommand{\emoticon}[1][]{%
  \node[face,#1] (emoticon) {};
  %% The eyes are fixed.
  \draw[fill=white] (-1ex,0ex) ..controls (-0.5ex,0.2ex)and(0.5ex,0.2ex)..
        (1ex,0.0ex) ..controls ( 1.5ex,1.5ex)and( 0.2ex,1.7ex)..
        (0ex,0.4ex) ..controls (-0.2ex,1.7ex)and(-1.5ex,1.5ex)..
        (-1ex,0ex)--cycle;}
\newcommand{\pupils}{
  %% standard pupils
  \fill[shift={(0.5ex,0.5ex)},rotate=80] 
       (0,0) ellipse (0.3ex and 0.15ex);
  \fill[shift={(-0.5ex,0.5ex)},rotate=100] 
       (0,0) ellipse (0.3ex and 0.15ex);}
\newcommand{\emoticonname}[1]{
  \node[below=1ex of emoticon,font=\footnotesize,
        minimum width=4cm]{#1};}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \matrix {
    \emoticon\pupils\emoticonname{basic}
    %% mouth
    \draw[thick] (-1ex,-1ex)
                 ..controls (-0.5ex,-1.5ex)and(0.5ex,-1.5ex)..(1ex,-1ex);
  &
    \emoticon\emoticonname{sad}
    %% pupils
    \fill[shift={( 0.5ex,0.5ex)},rotate=90] (0,0) ellipse (0.3ex and 0.15ex);
    \fill[shift={(-0.5ex,0.5ex)},rotate=90] (0,0) ellipse (0.3ex and 0.15ex);
    %% mouth
 
 
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