Grinning Squinting Face

The grinning squinting face icon represents a smiling face with a wide grin and squinting eyes, commonly used to express skepticism and amusement in digital communication.

The grinning squinting face icon is often used in social media, messaging apps, and online forums to convey a sense of doubt and playfulness. It can be found in various emoji sets, including the Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) library.

In terms of UX, this icon communicates a sense of humor and lightheartedness, making it suitable for use in digital products where a tongue-in-cheek tone is desired. It can help users understand that a message or interaction is meant to be humorous.

Grinning Squinting Face is one of 4,169 icons in Twitter Emoji, made by Twitter and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 36 × 36 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 GrinningSquintingFaceIcon to components/icons/twemoji-grinning-squinting-face.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 GrinningSquintingFaceIcon 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 Grinning Squinting Face icon, or any of 4,169 Twitter Emoji 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 36 × 36 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="Grinning Squinting Face", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. GrinningSquintingFaceIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <GrinningSquintingFaceIcon 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 credit: CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author (Twitter) where you use the icons. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author where you use the icons, for example "Icons by Twitter, CC BY 4.0" on an about or credits page.

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

2 other libraries draw an icon called Grinning Squinting Face. 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 emoji, fun, face, reaction and smiling. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Grinning Squinting Face in another set.

Twitter Emoji draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Grinning Squinting Face's siblings in it.