Microsoft's market dominance throughout the era of the desktop computer gave it a huge influence on typography. As Bowman says of these fonts "Love the more hate them, it's impossible to deny ...

Google and Microsoft have already included Unicode 9.0 emoji in the OS updates they're releasing this fall, and Apple will presumably do the same when it's ready.

Apple and Microsoft are being accused of getting political by pressuring Unicode into dropping two new gun emojis.