The emoji enlightenment dawned in August 2015. As we saw last time, that was the month in which the Unicode Consortium published āEmoji 1.0ā, a document that listed all available emoji characters and, crucially, described how to create new emoji by combining existing symbols.1 It was a big change to the status quo, and it was done with one overriding aim in mind: to allow emoji to become more representative of the people who used it. So what did Unicode do with that newfound freedom? Weāll find out over the next two parts as we follow emojiās journey from Emoji 1.0 right up to the present day.
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Burge, Jeremy. āEmoji Version 1.0ā. Emojipedia. Accessed February 7, 2019.
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Comment posted by dtw42 on
Regarding default skin tones (and the difficulties in picking one that won’t prompt outcries) ā blues and greens surely were never going to take off ā they’d make everybody look ill or like aliens. Isn’t grey (dull-looking though it is) the best solution? If someone’s rendered in mono, you can’t tell what colour they are…
Comment posted by Keith Houston on
Interestingly, Microsoft experimented with this on the original version of Windows 10: https://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-10/man/. They’ve since reverted to yellow.
Thanks for the comment!