The winner for the Most Popular New Emoji in 2024 was the head shaking horizontally (🙂‍↔️) followed by the head shaking ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

Thank you, Unicode, for the gift of the hot dog emoji. This is patently both phallic and vulvic. But the two buns could also act as a rather tenuous butt metaphor too. Related Stories.

smdh: New Unicode 15.1 emoji include nodding/shaking heads, “edible mushroom” New emoji are technically all modifications of existing designs.

Android 16 DP2 includes an updated emoji font file with 7 new emoji that are part of Unicode 16.0. Unicode, if you aren’t aware, is the universal text encoding standard that assigns unique ...

The number of emoji has ballooned from around 700 in 2010 to more than 3,600 today, should all 31 symbols presented in the draft list last week be approved come September.(It’s worth pointing ...

The downside to that is, if someone sends you a new emoji from a device or service with Unicode 11.0 support, ... There's also a red gift envelope, softball, frisbee, and lacrosse stick.

In 2019, filmmaker Theo Schear and harpist Mary Lattimore co-wrote a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, pleading with the group to create the first-ever harp emoji. It has been approved, and will ...

Have a friend who loves typography or emoji, but hates material gifts of any kind? Now there’s a present for them. Starting this week, the Unicode Consortium will let donors “adopt” any one ...