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The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this ...
But Unicode rejected the calls to produce a tiny graphic of a wind turbine, saying they already considering a potentially forthcoming emoji of a “windmill”, and therefore producing a wind ...
Social media users are convinced that an emoji showing a woman visiting the spa has vanished from their devices. Do you ...
But thanks largely to her efforts, the dumpling emoji was added to the Unicode Standard this year. And as part of her dumpling emoji lobbying, Lee decided to join the Unicode Consortium.
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. The list includes ...
Have you got a killer idea for the next great emoji? If so, you can enter your brilliant suggestion to be considered as an official character by following these simple steps.
Unicode president Mark Davis told Emojipedia about the challenges of creating a non-gendered emoji, saying, "One of the things that designers have struggled with is what makes a form look neutral.
From friendly smiley faces to cheeky peaches, emoji form a staple part of many of our daily messages. Now, eight new emoji have been confirmed for version 16.0 of the Unicode Standard. This ...
With the expansion of gender-inclusive emojis, Paul Hunt, the typeface designer behind Unicode's gender-inclusive emoji, explains its impact.
Did Apple pressure Unicode to shoot down the rifle emoji? BuzzFeed News reported on Friday that "a somewhat unusual decision" was made during Unicode's quarterly technical meeting in May.
The Unicode Consortium has released its latest draft of new emoji that could be included in the next Unicode release. As part of the newest list, the set of emoji will adopt the name of Emoji 11.0 ...
Unicode's latest Emoji 16.0 submission is scheduled to open starting April 4th, 2022, though what's different this time around is that Unicode has decided that it won't entertain any new flag emoji ...