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More than 150 new emoji have been approved by the emoji standards body called Unicode. A redheaded person, a llama, toilet paper and bagels are just some of the new symbols. It’s a big deal if ...
The Emoji 15.1 standard due for release in September this year has now been drafted, and the Consortium is reviewing all the submitted emoji. Considering the body has not rejected any of the ...
The proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence ...
Unicode released a list of the 157 new emoji coming in 2018. They include a flat shoe, a redhead, a bagel, a bald person, and a lacrosse stick. Plus a bald person, a peacock, and a superhero.
Face with Tears of Joy is having quite a year. It’s the most-tweeted emoji of 2015, according to the Twitter Data team, used 6.6 billion times (so far!). It’s not just Twitter that’s ...
The latest release of emoji, the first under your tenure, includes a face covered in clouds.It can variously mean someone who is dealing with brain fog, or smoking weed, or someone who is mortified.
Paul Hunt is a type designer at Adobe who helped bring the orange heart and more gender-inclusive emoji to Unicode 10, the upcoming version of Unicode Standard.The orange addition is key for ...
The Unicode Consortium, arbiter of all things emoji-related, has at last revealed the highly-anticipated list of 230 new emojis that will be added to smart phones next month. The class of 2019 ...
A "pregnant man" emoji and "pregnant person" emoji are coming to Apple iPhones with its latest update, iOS 15.4 sparking controversy. The pregnant emoji aren't new for some, since they arrived as ...