33 points | by nate 3 days ago
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There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.
Be the petty, small change you wish to see in the world: https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode
Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?
Simply because nobody has successfully pitched the Unicode group to add one.
Anyone can pitch new emoji, they just have to go through the fairly easy but strict formal process.
Alex Schmidt, a humor writer (formerly of Cracked and others) did this process for the bison emoji. I enjoyed his “miniseries” about it: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/
Why does that site feel like I am reading typed text on paper?
Are the emojis on Apple (macOS, iOS etc) vector graphics these days?
They are not. They are perhaps higher resolution than they once were, but still raster:
https://logandark.net/files/328S6690-9Q368809-16843Q53-RR2SN...
In case anyone is actually interested in the emoji:
https://emojipedia.org/apple
More specifically, it was this set: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2
Interesting tidbit:
> Emoji support required iPhone OS 2.2 and a SoftBank SIM card.
There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.
Be the petty, small change you wish to see in the world: https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode
Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?
Simply because nobody has successfully pitched the Unicode group to add one.
Anyone can pitch new emoji, they just have to go through the fairly easy but strict formal process.
Alex Schmidt, a humor writer (formerly of Cracked and others) did this process for the bison emoji. I enjoyed his “miniseries” about it: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/
Why does that site feel like I am reading typed text on paper?
Are the emojis on Apple (macOS, iOS etc) vector graphics these days?
They are not. They are perhaps higher resolution than they once were, but still raster:
https://logandark.net/files/328S6690-9Q368809-16843Q53-RR2SN...
In case anyone is actually interested in the emoji:
https://emojipedia.org/apple
More specifically, it was this set: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2
Interesting tidbit:
> Emoji support required iPhone OS 2.2 and a SoftBank SIM card.