Last week Google launched a brand new emoji-focused font: Noto Emoji. Monochrome and minimalist, the font renders emojis as simply as possible and also introduces a series of new blob-inspired designs. The entire set is now viewable on Emojipedia. While announcing the launch of Noto Emoji font, Google's Jennifer Daniel

Facebook has begun rolling out a new emoji update, introducing the likes of 🫠 Melting Face, 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears, and 🫶 Heart Hands to the platform while also updating the existing 🤭 Face with Hand Over Mouth and 💉 Syringe emoji designs. These emojis are for Meta's Facebook and Messenger platforms and will

WhatsApp have today released a new update for their Android messaging app, bringing support for new emojis like 🫠 Melting Face, 🫡 Saluting Face, 🫶 Heart Hands, and 🪩 Mirror Ball with the app's native emoji set. A total of 107 new emojis have been introduced in today's this update, formally titled WhatsApp for

The melee for emoji glory continues on Twitter, as the historically dominant 😂 Face with Tears of Joy and the 😭 Loudly Crying Face have once again swapped places. This comes ten years to the month when 😂 Face with Tears of Joy first emerged as the platform's top emoji and one year

Today Unicode has opened submissions for Emoji 16.0, meaning people from around the world can propose new emojis for inclusion in our global emoji keyboards. However, there won't be any new pride flags, language flags, color-based flags, or other “non-geographical” flags coming to the emoji keyboard in Emoji 16.

Apple has today released iOS 15.4, introducing brand new emojis such as the Melting Face, Saluting Face, Heart Hands, and Beans to iPhone and iPad users. In total, this update has added 123 new emoji designs to Apple's emoji keyboard, including all 112 emojis that were approved as part

Twitter has begun to roll out Twemoji 14.0, which provides support for new smileys emojis like the 🫠 Melting Face and 🫡 Saluting Face, as well as support for a variety of mixed skin tone 🤝 Handshake emojis. No previously released emojis have been visibly updated in Twemoji 14.0, though a

Twitter has rolled out a small new emoji update: Twemoji 13.1.1. Several existing emoji designs have been updated, including 🤝 Handshake and 🔋 Battery emojis, both of which will have complimentary new emojis arriving in Emoji 14.0. EDITOR'S NOTE: Twitter has since released Twemoji 14.0, which includes new

Over the last number of weeks Samsung has been quietly rolling out a small emoji update with a big implication: the design of incredibly popular ✨ Sparkles emoji now matches that of other major emoji vendors. Prior to this update, the ✨ Sparkles emoji has maintained the same design across each of

Less than a year since the 😭 Loudly Crying Face took the top spot on Twitter, the oft-maligned but ever-present 😂 Face with Tears of Joy is once again the platform's number one emoji by the slimmest of margins. 🤏 📈 However, as we can see above, this is more due to the 😭 Loudly

This week marks the beginning of a new year within the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar, and we here at Emojipedia would like to wish all that celebrate Chinese New Year a very happy year of the 🐅 Tiger! There are two different tiger emojis within the emoji keyboard: the full-bodied 🐅 Tiger

New emojis have arrived on iOS as part of the first iOS 15.4 beta. These include a melting face, pregnant man, mirror disco ball, and multi-racial handshake emojis. Editor's Note: iOS 15.4 is out now. Read more about the official release. The new emojis included in this beta

Emojipedia, the world's most popular emoji resource, has a new set of eyes (👀). Keith Broni takes over as Editor in Chief of Emojipedia effective February 1, 2022. I couldn't be more pleased to have someone as thoughtful and capable as Keith leading Emojipedia into the future. 👋 Meet KeithKeith first started

As another year enters the annals of history, a new record of global emoji use has been reached. Meanwhile, changes amongst the top ten global emojis continue, though as a whole the world's most popular emojis remain highly stable. Come the end of the month[1], 21.54% of all

As we swiftly approach the end of the year, holiday season emojis such as 🎄 Christmas Tree and 🎅 Santa Claus are soaring in use, as they have done since the earliest days of the emoji keyboard. The increase in usage for 🎄 Christmas Tree as 2021 comes to a close is evident

WhatsApp has released an update for their Android messaging app, bringing over 200 emoji combinations from late 2019 and late 2020 to the platform's emoji set for the first time. Above: the 242 new emojis included in WhatsApp 2.21.23.23. Image: WhatsApp designs / Emojipedia composite. This update has

This week Microsoft has released an update for Windows 11, officially bringing their new Fluent emoji set to Windows users. The update also brings popular new emojis such as Face with Spiral Eyes and Heart on Fire to the platform for the first time. Above: a selection of 😃 Smiley emojis

As we approach Thanksgiving in the United States, various emojis experience a considerable holiday-based jump in use. This is especially true of those emojis that can be associated with the traditionally sizable Thanksgiving dinner. These of course include 🦃 Turkey and 🥧 Pie emojis. We are also able to see some movement

Today Samsung has begun rolling out the latest version of its Android software layer, One UI 4.0. This update includes popular emoji recommendations from late 2020, such as the Heart on Fire and Face with Spiral Eyes. Above: all the new emojis within Samsung One UI 4.0. Image:

Google has finalised the designs for its latest emoji update, meaning that brand new 2021 emojis such as Melting Face and Heart Hands will soon be coming to its various platforms. Above: the 107 new emojis included in Google's Emoji 14.0 update for Android 12L. This update will come

Earlier today, as part of the Android Developer Summit, Google announced the release of a developer preview of Android 12L - a version of Android 12 designed for larger devices. Android 12L also includes our first look at 2021's emoji recommendation, such as Melting Face and Heart Hands, in action

There's an orange heart. A purple heart. A blue one. Even a brown heart. So why no pink heart emoji? For those who have asked this very question, there is good news on the horizon: a pink heart emoji has passed its first hurdles and could now be on its

Why does a site that informs you that 🍆 Eggplant means “penis” belong in a government funded library? In 2017 the Library of Congress started archiving Emojipedia as part of their new Web Cultures Web Archive, housed in the American Folklife Center. Anyone unfamiliar with this archive might be surprised to

As we once again approach the spooky side of October, certain emojis are getting the time to ✨shine✨. Or ✨gLoW eeRIly✨, as the case may be. Halloween emojis consistently trend on social platforms like Twitter in October, especially for classics like 🎃 Jack-O-Lantern and 👻 Ghost. There's a big selection of Halloween-appropriate