Jeremy Burge

Emoji designs from Japanese carrier SoftBank are now showing on Emojipedia. These archives catalog emojis that were distributed on SoftBank devices from 2006—2016. Many of the emojis shown in these sets pre-date

In this month's Emoji Wrap podcast Rick Moby from EmojiOne discusses emojis on the Nintendo Switch, tough pistol decisions, and why doesn't anyone know how to hug? Each month I send a newsletter

Facebook has a lot on its plate right now, but add new emoji designs to the list. A new glossier emoji design is on the way, and is already showing for some users.

New emoji candidates including a service dog, deaf people, and mixed race couples were added to the draft emoji list for 2019 at the most recent Unicode Technical Committee meeting. While these candidates

In this month's Emoji Wrap podcast Microsoft Fluent Design Team explains the Ninja Cat, why the Windows emoji designs have that solid thick outline, and what's included in the new emoji release. Every

Microsoft has today shown its latest emoji support for those signed up for Windows Insider builds. Supporting all the new emojis approved as part of emoji 11.0, new additions include a foot,

Google has today shared new statistics that show 😘 Face Blowing a Kiss beating out the 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes emoji. It is World Emoji Day after all, and Google noted: “to celebrate this

To celebrate World Emoji Day on July 17[1] Apple has today offered a first look at the iOS emojis for 2018. We spoke to Apple VP of User Interface Design Alan Dye

With World Emoji Day fast approaching on July 17, Facebook has taken the opportunity to look at how emojis are being used on Facebook and Messenger platforms. Starting with the most popular emojis,

In this month's Emoji Wrap podcast Google's Jennifer Daniel laments the lack of a sweaty heart emoji. Every month I send a newsletter containing topics in the wider world of emoji and I

Google today released a new beta of Android P which includes a preview of new emoji updates coming later in 2018. Mixed amongst a collection of emoji design changes and new emojis are

A new emoji-like avatar from Apple is called Memoji and coming to iOS 12 this year. Announced in the keynote for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Memoji is basically Animoji but with your

Unicode 11.0 arrives on June 5, 2018. This signals the date which companies can begin supporting the new emojis. The final emoji list for 2018 was announced back in February, and the

Emojipedia's emoji archives now date back ten years, but how do you check what an emoji used to look like? You're not dreaming. There used to be a gavel emoji on iOS. It

Users of Twitter for Android may notice an emoji change when accessing the service today. Twemoji designs are now shown within Twitter, replacing native emojis previously shown from platform vendors such as Google

Tony Hawk, professional skateboarder and beloved video game character, is a bit easier to spot in the real world now thanks to a new set of plates on his car. Originally posted on

As work on the the emoji list for 2019 continues, a white heart, flamingo, and maté have been added to the draft candidates list. White heart has been one of the most popular

Google's developer conference opened this year with CEO Sundar Pichai addressing the burger emoji “controversy” of 2017. Google previously displayed the 🍔 Burger emoji with cheese underneath the burger patty. Addressing the matter in

It's a flush. Every major vendor has now committed to redesign the gun emoji, replacing it with a water pistol / squirt gun design. It took a while, and then it happened all at

An update rolling out now to Android users has updated the gun emoji to appear as a toy water pistol, in line with recent changes by other vendors. It seems inevitable in retrospect.

The emoji keyboard is mostly universal, but some vendors have final say over which characters appear in which regions on each device. iPhone users in China are missing one specific emoji on their

One major dictionary company has begun documenting emojis. Is this a sign of things to come? Dictionary.com has expanded from covering just words, to also including emojis (and memes). Lexicographer Jane Solomon

In a submission to the Unicode Consortium today, Apple has proposed a suite of new “accessibility emojis”. New emojis proposed include a guide dog, hearing aid, prosthetic limbs, as well as people using

😂 Face With Tears of Joy was used 6.6 billion times on Twitter in 2015, and has remained the most used emoji on just about every platform ever since. Apple listed Tears of

With 157 new emojis arriving this year we now look ahead to 2019. Which emojis have been most requested in the past 12 months? One of the most requested this year is the