Terms of Use — Characters Are Free, Artwork Is Not

These terms of use cover what you may do with FaceMoji.net: copy any emoji or text face freely, quote our explanations with a link, and accept that meanings are common usage, not rulings.

FaceMoji.net is independent and NOT affiliated with the Facemoji keyboard app or its developer, nor with Unicode, Apple, Google or Samsung. The name is ours; the app is a different product.

These terms cover your use of FaceMoji. Using the site means accepting them.

Last updated: 8 October 2026 · Published by the FaceMoji editorial team

Copying characters

Copy anything on this site and use it anywhere, personally or commercially, with no attribution required. Emoji and emoticon characters are defined by the Unicode Standard and belong to nobody at all — we publish them, we do not own them, and you need no permission from us.

One distinction matters and is often missed. The character is free. The artwork is not. When you copy an emoji you are copying a code point, and each platform draws its own picture for it — Apple’s design, Google’s design, Samsung’s, Twitter’s. Those images are the property of those companies. Copying a character and pasting it somewhere is fine; lifting a vendor’s rendered artwork as an image file into your own product is a different act with different rules.

Our writing is ours

The explanations, usage notes and comparisons on this site are our work and are protected by copyright. Quote a paragraph with a link back and we are glad to have helped. Copying a page and republishing it under another name is a copyright matter rather than a grey area.

What our meanings are and are not

When we say a face is commonly used a particular way, that is an observation about usage, not a ruling. Emoji meaning drifts, varies by region and age group, and sometimes moves in the opposite direction from the character’s formal name.

So treat our descriptions as a guide to how people generally use something, not as evidence of what a specific person meant in a specific message. We deliberately describe more than one reading where more than one is genuinely common, because picking a single answer would sound more confident and be less true.

Rendering is not ours to control

How an emoji looks depends entirely on the device reading it. The same character can be warm on one platform and sour on another, and vendors redesign their artwork between releases without notice.

We note where a difference is big enough to change a message, and we cannot do anything about the difference itself. A face that arrived looking wrong is not a fault in this site.

What you may not do

• Do not scrape the site. Automated bulk requests degrade it for everyone and will be blocked.
• Do not republish our pages, translated or otherwise, under your own name.
• Do not present our usage notes as authoritative in a context where that matters — a dispute, a moderation decision, a legal argument. They are observations about common usage.

Availability and accuracy

The site is provided as it is. We may add, change or remove pages, and it may be unavailable during maintenance without notice. There is no service-level agreement and no paid tier that would create one.

We check character names and code points against the Unicode Standard and correct errors when we find them or when a reader reports one; our editorial policy describes how. That is a real commitment and not a warranty. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss arising from use of the site; where local law does not permit that limitation, it applies only as far as it lawfully can.

Trademarks

Platform and product names mentioned on this site — Apple, Google, Samsung, WhatsApp, Instagram and others — belong to their owners and appear only to describe where a character behaves in a particular way. Mention is not affiliation, endorsement or sponsorship, and this site is not connected to any of them.

Changes

If these terms change, this page changes and the date above moves with it. Continuing to use the site means accepting the current version. Questions go to the contact page.

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