Whether it's a friendly smiling face or a cheeky aubergine, emoji now form a daily part of many people's day-to-day messages. Now, Unicode, the group responsible for approving new emoji, has revealed ...
Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for. Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The ...
The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...
If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...
Emojis that originated in Japan are widely used as 'Emoji' overseas, and are diversified into message apps and postings on SNS. In the standard ' According to Emojipedia, there were a lot of calls for ...
An acquaintance recently told me that he has been mistakenly referring to flamingos as penguins. Hopefully, the latest batch of emoji from coding consortium Unicode will help him address this problem ...
The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...
The inimitable Jennifer Daniel, a Unicode Emoji Subcommittee-Chair, wrote about a new effort to take emojis back to their humble roots. Before we had our gleaming set of 3,633 emoji characters like ...