Emoji, the little icons and characters that you send and receive every day, fall under the jurisdiction of the Unicode Consortium. The Consortium is the organization responsible for maintaining ...
Alex King points, for example, to the infamous ‘eggplant’ emoji, (U+1F346), which is rarely used to refer to eggplant (2018, pp. 2, 3). So far, so good. I want to now draw your attention to the fact ...
Good for: Making your message ~look a certain way~ visually, or remembering someone close to you. Bad for: Showing intense passion. (Let’s face it: This emoji can be a little bland.) This was ...
365, designing emojis with black and mixed race hairstyles is about representation. She told BBC London: “I feel like there's a negative stereotype around coarser hair textures like Afro hair ...
ICYMI, there are a bunch of different heart emojis on your keyboard. Like, there are hearts in pretty much every color, and you’ve also got lots of ~quirky~ options at your disposal, too. (Hi, sparkly ...