Curly Lenny is a Lenny Face in the Smug & Knowing mood. Curly braces lend a programmer's smugness. Drop it in dev chat when a refactor lands suspiciously cleanly.
Click the face above to copy it to your clipboard, then paste into Discord, Reddit, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, Twitch chat, or anywhere else you write text. Lenny faces are built from standard Unicode characters and combining diacritics — no special keyboard required. The original raised-eyebrow leer and its closest variants — when the implication is doing the work. This is a variant of Classic Lenny.
Reading the Curly Lenny
The vibe
Curly braces lend a programmer's smugness. Drop it in dev chat when a refactor lands suspiciously cleanly.
Where it works best
Lenny faces are at home in Discord, Reddit threads, Twitch chat, Steam reviews, and the comment sections of any platform that doesn't auto-convert emoticons. They survive paste cleanly across iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux because they're built from standard Unicode code points.
Pasting fidelity
The combining diacritics (U+0361 inverted breve, U+035C breve below) attach to the surrounding characters. If a destination editor strips combining marks, the eyebrows disappear. Most modern apps preserve them — Slack and Microsoft Word are the main offenders.
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Frequently asked questions
What does { ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°} mean?
Curly Lenny is read as the Smug & Knowing variant of the Lenny face family. Curly braces lend a programmer's smugness. Drop it in dev chat when a refactor lands suspiciously cleanly.
How do I type the Lenny face on a keyboard?
There's no keyboard shortcut for Lenny — it's built from combining diacritics that aren't on standard layouts. Copy { ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°} from this page (one click on the big copy button above) and paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on Mac).
Will { ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°} render correctly on every platform?
On modern iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and web browsers — yes. Older systems or apps with limited Unicode support may render the combining marks as separate characters or omit them entirely, breaking the eyebrow placement. Test in your target app before relying on it.
Where did Lenny faces come from?
The original ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) appeared on 4chan in 2012 and spread through Reddit, Discord, and the wider internet as a versatile reaction face. The "Lenny" name comes from a comment that called the leering smile "Lenny". Hundreds of variants now exist — this site catalogs the most useful 150.