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 ...

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 ...

So while the downturn on both white Santa and black Santa’s mustaches are the same, because of that pesky contrast in black Santa, the downturn is MUCH more pronounced.” Or maybe emoji black ...

The Unicode Consortium has issued an update to its list of emoji, bringing more than 200 new characters without a single person of color.

To Gen Z, that classic smiley face emoji isn’t all sunshine — it’s more of a smug, side-eye smirk that can come off as passive-aggressive in texts like above.

The smiley is the heart of the emoji world, so it’s pretty well-covered already. As such, maybe it’s no surprise there are only two new smiley emoji this year. But they manage to delight, anyway.

An old-school smiling emoji is currently trending on Twitter, but it’s not an icon you have on your iPhone keyboard. Instead, it’s a GIF of a smiley face with buck teeth that slowly ...