Emojis help people show emotion in digital spaces — but the little, pixelated characters don't always represent the diversity of their users. And changing that isn't easy, as Rayouf Alhumedhi knows ...

Earlier this month, the Unicode Consortium had its 149th meeting to approve 51 new emoji as part of Unicode 10.0 — which will be available for mobile devices, laptops, desktops and wearables. The ...

Every time Apple announces new emojis, it seems to stir some controversy. Monday was no exception. The new emojis, which included less controversial figures such as a dinosaur, a zebra, a zombie and a ...

Rayouf Alhumedhi is a 15-year-old student in Berlin, Germany. She’s been wearing a hijab—the traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women—since age 13. But when Saudi Arabia-born Alhumedhi and her ...

When Rayouf Alhumedhi’s friends wanted to identify themselves to one another in a WhatsApp group chat, they didn’t rely on their names. Instead, each friend used an emoji. “My friends, who don’t wear ...

Headscarf-wearing women now have an emoji of their own, thanks to a 16-year-old Saudi girl. Rayouf Alhumedhi, who now lives in Vienna, proposed the idea last year to The Unicode Consortium, the ...

When Rayouf Alhumedhi’s friends wanted to identify themselves to one another in a WhatsApp group chat, they didn’t rely on their names. Instead, each friend used an emoji. “My friends, who don’t wear ...

Right now, the only place Rayouf Alhumedhi could depict herself with a hijab emoji would be through the Snapchat-owned personalized emoji app Bitmoji. So the high school student decided to draft an ...

When Rayouf Alhumedhi’s friends wanted to identify themselves to one another in a WhatsApp group chat, they didn’t rely on their names. Instead, each friend used an emoji. “My friends, who don’t wear ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Headscarf-wearing women now have an emoji of ...