A new draft proposal published Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium outlines a way of diversifying the mostly white people who populate your emoji keyboard. The system, presented by Google software ...

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.

Unicode is responsible for bringing out new emoji with every version it releases. Unicode 8.0 added the unicorn and thinking face, while Unicode 9.0 featured the addition of bacon and an avocado ...

Emojipedia founder and Chief Emoji Officer Jeremy Burge has announced that the Unicode Consortium has approved 69 emoji as part of the Emoji 5.0 update for 2017. The Unicode Consortium is a non ...

We last got new emoji in 2023's Unicode 15.1 update, though all of these designs were technically modifications of existing emoji rather than new characters—many emoji, most notably for skin and ...

The Unicode Consortium has released the most popularly used emoji for the first time ever. The Unicode Consortium sets the international standards for characters, including emoji, across software ...

No one intends to encode boring emoji, of course. Unicode has three main criteria, and one of them is, "Is there substantial evidence that a large number of people will likely use this new emoji"?

emoji by unicode Last year, I wrote about how emoji-coder Unicode added 230 emoji, such as a banjo and kite, but neglected to include the trans pride flag. That was rectified this year ...

Or is there some kind of emoji illuminati that calls the shots? To answer these questions, The Times called Mark Davis, president and co-founder of the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit Silicon ...

Language evolves. And perhaps today’s most quickly evolving language is emoji, more and more of which are added each year in response to how we use the quirky symbols and which new ones we want.