Replace default WordPress emoticons with new font based emoticons simply by using new WordPress plugin by Sebastian Krysmanski.
Install and activate Font Emoticons. It provides you following advantages over default WordPress smileys:
- Font based emoticons always fit your font size.
- Font based emoticons have same size as the surrounding text.
- Font based emoticons are of same color as the surrounding text.
- Font based emoticons gives no more distorting heights of lines containing smileys-emoticons.
Given screenshot shows the comparison between default and font based emoticons.