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More skin tone variations are coming to the world of Emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which selects new character variants each year, gave smartphone users a mini-update on Friday, unveiling the ...
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To find out how the variations impact the way people interpret emoji and conversation, researchers at the University of Minnesota’s GroupLens research lab conducted a survey using 22 human-like ...
The Unicode Consortium, the organisation in charge of selecting what emoji gets to sit on your phone's keyboard, has released its draft candidates for 2019.
The emoji version 13.1 release will include a total of 217 new emoji sequences, according to the Unicode Consortium, which detailed the finalized lineup in a blog post on Friday.
While there are 59 distinct new emoji, variations for skin tone and gender make for a total of 230 individual images. Emojipedia 2019-09-16T14:07:00Z ...
— -- Not all emoji are created equal, especially if you're messaging a friend with a different kind of phone. The Unicode Consortium, the group overseeing emoji standards across platforms ...
The new release also includes 138 gender-neutral forms and 75 variations of the holding hands emoji—made possible through new combinations of skin tone and gender—and more emoji representative ...