Google designers began tweaking the blob emoji in subtle ways. First, Google made the features in their expressions clearer and more pronounced. Then, in 2015, ...

Turtle emoji: Android 7.1 (left), Android 10 (center), Android 11 (right) In related news, Google is also bringing back the frog emoji from the blob days. Again, it’s slightly tweaked, but much ...

Google killed its blob emoji last year, and it has since replaced them with a standard circular shape (read: generic) to align its offering with emoji from other operating systems.Since then, the ...

Google’s blob emoji are great and no one will convince me otherwise. May 25th, 2017. May 25th, 2017. by Natt Garun. May 25, 2017, 11:30 AM UTC. A ton of ...

The blob emoji were born just four short years ago. Designed and introduced at Google I/O 2013, the weird-shaped little yellow faces were the brainchildren of design agency IC4DESIGN.

If you've ever received an emoji that looked like a half-melted yellow marshmallow with a face, you can blame Google. Good news, Gmail, Hangouts and Android fans: Google is (finally) revamping its ...

Animal emoji, especially, carry secondary connotations that can be positive or negative (think the butterfly as a symbol of beauty and freedom versus the cockroach as a symbol of “yuck”).

Looking at the animal kingdom, there is a huge bias toward the large group, or phylum, we are in — vertebrates. Out of more than 30 animal phyla, we only have emoji representatives for five of them.

Say goodbye to the blob, and hello to the squishy circle. Google's rolling out brand new designs. for its Android emoji, and they look, well, a lot like the emoji you see on other platforms.