Some X-Faces I Have Made

X-Faces are small black-and-white pictures encoded for display in some email clients and USENET newsreaders. Ace's "a bunch of X-Faces" page has a brief discussion of them and many, many sample X-Faces.

There are a number of tools that allow you to create your own X-Face (or display one that someone else has created). I use GraphicConverter by Lemke Software, a shareware Macintosh graphics program. Jeff Dairiki has an online X-Face converter which can be used to make and decode X-Faces.

The X-Face that I originally used when posting to USENET is the following, which is based on a street sign I saw in Ireland:

X-Face: ;)jslO)N,o:5!X3&x$$KfbOwDM5vyh7''/Pk4%)/F#]n6#f="#*nVV/'T)E/U
        pcDBG{vUt/%z\V7'q6dt<4;FYa\@AjwI_)!jh&4]rNHHw>"XV:>!ZGizIJ~zin3AUdTJ
        iMF4m3>Y~

The one I use now is based on a linoleum print of a stegasaurus I made when I was a youngun:

It's:

X-Face: &;rGGK:z\57%8AveF^4bw?I^@Aa>\3E%zs$jlG&lreY/i@N<qMg:!FQ:gj;ku
        $UBKtM1C6Tk-Kn1I|)j#wr;2I&}g~I^uI"_"<f(Y87"E_3&[%u"E$!>ytA2a.gS
        z'I0VL[?-(Be5zw<Qan&/E"vR@rzhK*Q9~HU5j=2U"!

and looks like

Here are some others that I've come up with:

X-Face: 33W+$O(|}Jv`PEgf@|87~>ig'k^@|mI=P&*b!Mr^@uHly#4,UC%2TKS`b
        =Dj+kV7&e~#B=lrK'4[S/Q;T}9.}V[6-L9dhfRsN;b)n07ER;XD4oWU[+
        \Pl<|N;Y\5.8~"&X`Mnm3s]63Wf@>"_Tm\7z7X1W-^c7noXT!OnRI\0L^
        ItF5Uhh[Hmd8yqaPR0pX}|cK*m#SRJp4;y):V{+b"Kp5k!!*dAY^hjqJM
        ]>+oX3)D8uYj~UWMSF+&(aw_QnHA,["mvO~OXU$;NT00:H/V:^GWgs$L_
        oZh61cC8AS't]Tv;fh,WUBuW1!1)|Dj

This is based on a charcoal drawing I did for an art class. I also have scanned in a larger version.

X-Face: \hw`}tdB__R:k7P{BeD|Rb(0s56<cW2R+2'G*pin^T-\]x`a]#/%d"\$3Kj
 ^hh+J=qK#Jg8Vf>H6;zDvW8odUef_%CO9l-u7rqw<$Y2bXQ}-0@cD]R_IW3IxmL&tF
 84vA{C{s&xU0[EtD*owpgwd2<SR-S:t!Xe{tL\S+[NMhslNaX!BYMg;/\3{zV2s%jw
 <42{Z'Z+He$0f0GZ_YtCJ#MdE>2up

Someone on alt.religion.kibology asked for an X-Face of Bob the Rubber Chicken and I complied. You can see the picture that the above X-Face was based on.

X-Face: (C0m{brIaG"*T`")RI>+$D[!EKJ<y*@m^9Z4I:@hj_B*^$_zD(m3@-;J?c8
 EvLK^.IY=LYx/XRMJFL#gtum1YyF@g3.5;`4-.rx4$hgJm?(.6`4*E8KY\;q?b77.D
 S?3-Y:2)QC}xK!\GQK44}VjfN9%IRavIMtzs4{3!T;kstpyi~*CL:#dRC]Bxzafv.o
 2Q=0{]'Y\srtZ?N:zYQ/?>cp/"Mlh5Wv"prRC_Up7RK}|L&X%U`@

Another alt.religion.kibology request. Someone wanted a Shrek X-Face.

X-Face: yfqh3zxyiv>FD3zu7vRvqr-j]_60Zt,#&?naJFe!!OKY{F<{p\FyfkS$bglN?
        !-,e{GBF\r3'iYs-`i#,v>"s

Finally, someone on alt.religion.kibology asked for a X-Face of a turtle.

X-Face: 7I#W7L\\0K1|EC3dEA">AVAbm,E(`P^>t3|AS}&Psp:ETd]EV(+7Te@C)yJ5"
        Q;aBGy<I)&RX5`15K2Tvl,Brp^&.n{NpTUGS8/AK;2h~,6qcx^T$(k|DBcki\{WMvI;C
        3U;{jJ1Dh2pT6,ZB~tB7KiGRM[mvrHiO`.0Z]9mnm!S%E

This was prompted by events in Rhode Island in August of 2002, when it became possible to get a license plate with one of these guys on it.

X-Face: 1szEQx}FD`g+Xn&Ia"D2>t1M=d9]n[_e%I!o<U2h5mVP)V5+%PXw_\YDE1oKq
        ZY<p@c"Nmo>o7?yiC@vWV_!p[8~Ee.$GEb3`-L2Ju}6Mya"a)~@>8u[;p*btvWZV:,#|
        2r!#xg>A8$SW*/#}v>Z^]Hbh7Y++],a)`!C0qEWq:1xZc5Zs6T:$F&"*gxAfHj1l-{LO
        S"\M5p`7y*<83!t#Er'm)g]Zkd_J`e=(fa(d9>=e/)"We#vBhd_V|im<_5]cPqp6{sV\
        hXu2IlO?e7oOL5xg:z7dAx!1W:!iqO'}r0L$pW[x0:<^w

Mmmm...doughnuts...

X-Face: jwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwgh
 jwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwgh
 jwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwghjwgh

Really, I was just curious what this would look like. I kind of like it.

X-Face: f];T_qg_\vTIR&2_w69V!n.-0&@D|gnN([2:Vm&##~jb-E%II|(`C/4%@Z{5*
        =*1bRDMRX?ZzJC2Oqz/X\Tf>98wTRdQH;Tr}FI)RC1D]*O2o\)}8:`OF=d~?UfAOBePS
        l$a+Ns/G`9LI2UdZPS!hpD`4*>{^U^H:T

This is a doodle I did in AppleWorks. For those who are wondering, I don't look like this.

X-Face: 2/3m"]FxD:"gZ.B&dI|%-U[F6:wr|.Jbb'nqs=CAw#rSOT'Lj%&)/A7^_E?;+
        4N=)_cC&[\;Q-VG#D'.wa%50@o10v=*+tCG-ro/f"v/$P#>;IKzZ+DQbbPG[/TKNYK%f
        1d2a-.G:1)~#IJ;7tXIW/hGrN#t>r{1!*x/\>e*0Z6F!l/gT+(?*/ywamD,E8qI2G7v]
        1=79L'.)g4U8|xE`sS`%q]9u

This is based on the baby-faced sun in the Teletubbies. I briefly used it on my posts until I was politely asked to change it.