Man Facepalming

The man-facepalming icon represents a man with his face in his hand, expressing frustration or disappointment. It is part of the OpenMoji library, which provides a wide range of emojis and characters for use in digital communication. This icon can be used to convey a sense of exasperation or dismay in digital communication.

In digital platforms, this icon can be used in chat applications, social media posts, or online forums to express a user's emotions. For example, in a conversation, this icon could be used to respond to a frustrating situation.

From a UX perspective, this icon communicates a sense of frustration or disappointment, and can help users understand the tone of a message. The use of this icon can also add a touch of personality to digital communication.

Man Facepalming is one of 4,481 icons in OpenMoji, made by OpenMoji and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is drawn on a 72 × 72 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds ManFacepalmingIcon to components/icons/openmoji-man-facepalming.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed ManFacepalmingIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Man Facepalming icon, or any of 4,481 OpenMoji icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 72 × 72 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Man Facepalming", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ManFacepalmingIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ManFacepalmingIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes, with conditions: CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit the author (OpenMoji), and icons you change must use the same license. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit OpenMoji, and icons you change must be shared under the same license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Man Facepalming. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are communication, expression, emotion, disappointment and frustration. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Man Facepalming in another set.

OpenMoji draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Man Facepalming's siblings in it.