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With just two days before World Emoji Day on July 17th, Emojipedia has shared a list of draft characters the Unicode Consortium will consider for final inclusion in Unicode 14.0.
A handful of airports across the country are pushing Unicode for a new plane-landing emoji after claiming the current one appears too “crash-y.” The social media team behind the Dallas/Fort ...
Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird. Andrew Cunningham – Jun 16, 2014 5:50 pm | 81 ...
After months of anticipation and (apparently) some debate, 72 new emoji characters are officially on their way to smartphones everywhere as part of Unicode 9.0. The emoji keyboard update, released ...
The number of emoji has ballooned from around 700 in 2010 to more than 3,600 today, should all 31 symbols presented in the draft list last week be approved come September.(It’s worth pointing ...
The Unicode Standard Version 7.0 brings with it 250 new emoji as part of the selection of new characters, many of which have been adapted from characters in Windings and Webdings fonts.
The laugh-cry emoji, or 😂, is the most-used emoji in the world, according the Unicode Consortium. In fact, the 10 most-used emoji haven't changed much since 2019.
We've seen a few people share on social media that the Unicode 16.0 release includes a "greenwashing" emoji designed by Shepard Fairey, an artist best known for the 2008 Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
With September upon us, just like clockwork, the Consortium has given the green light for Unicode 15.0, complete with 31 new emoji — and if that weren't enough, it's also being joined by Google ...
Since these digital pictographs debuted on mobile phones two decades ago, emoji have become a ubiquitous facet of human communication. There are now more than 3,000 emoji, and over 100 new ones ...