It took the Unicode Consortium a good two years, but they've finally got a new handshake character that's available with up to 25 different skin tone combinations.

A pregnant man and a handshake featuring different skin tones are among the newest emojis to be released over the coming year. A draft list of the newest emojis released by the Unicode Consortium, a ...

The same goes for the handshake emoji. “ At this stage skin tone support for the handshake emoji is drafted for Emoji 14.0 meaning it could be on phones in 2021-2022,” Burge explains.

When the Unicode Consortium rolls out Emoji 14.0 sometime in 2022, it will include a new handshake character that will allow you to modify the skin tones of both the left and right hands for a ...

According to Google, Jennifer Daniel, the company's creative director for emoji, "submitted paperwork for Unicode to consider the addition of the multi-skin toned handshake" in November 2019.

After years of texting highlighter-yellow handshakes to our friends, multi-skin toned handshake emoji are coming to our phones in 2022. The Unicode Consortium, which — among other things ...

After a six-month delay, Unicode 14.0 unveiled 37 icons (112 including skin tone variants) expected to hit major platforms in late 2021 or early 2022. As the collection grows, new additions become ...

Just like language. Just like you," Daniel said in a statement. In 2019, she submitted the paperwork for Unicode to consider the addition of the multi-skin toned handshake.