The proposal notes that emoji can technically already be rendered in two palettes: in color ("emoji representation") or in black and white ("text presentation"), depending on what the environment ...

And yet, if you look at the iOS emoji black Santa — especially compared with content-looking emoji Caucasian Santa — something seems not so jolly. He seems, in fact, sad. His mouth, under the ...

When they were first launched in 2015, emoji skin tones corrected an obvious wrong.Previously, if a black man or a Latino woman wanted to text a friend the thumbs-up emoji on an iPhone, a white ...

The diversity of emoji has been lacking since the beginning and hasn’t improved since its introduction of the man wearing a white turban. The update brings the count of people of color from one ...

Google has created a new emoji (variable) font with “Noto Emoji,” whose defining characteristic is a black-and-white design that tries to capture the “simplicity” of the format – and ...