The Original Smiley Face Icon - History & Design #1215055 (License: Personal Use)

This image features the original yellow smiley face logo designed by commercial artist Harvey Ball in 1971 for an insurance company’s employee morale campaign. Rendered in bold black lines on a vibrant yellow circle, it includes two dot eyes and a wide, upward-curving smile, with Ball’s signature inscribed in the lower right. Though widely imitated and commercialized, this version remains the authentic source of the global smiley phenomenon.

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