Jeremy Burge

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. First appearing back in June 2018 [https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1011948853560512513], these new designs arrived unannounced,

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 aren't guaranteed entry into the Unicode Standard, this is a key step before the final

In this month's Emoji Wrap podcast [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com] 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 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-previews-emoji-11-0-support/]. Every month I send a

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 [https://emojipedia.org/foot/], frisbee [https://emojipedia.org/flying-disc/][1], swan [https://emojipedia.org/swan/], lobster [https:

Google has today shared new statistics that show 😘 Face Blowing a Kiss [https://emojipedia.org/face-throwing-a-kiss/] beating out the 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes [https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-heart-shaped-eyes/] emoji. It is World Emoji Day [https://worldemojiday.com] after all, and Google noted: “to celebrate this day with the global community, we

To celebrate World Emoji Day [http://worldemojiday.com] 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 about the new emoji updates and when we can expect them. Popular additions coming

With World Emoji Day [http://worldemojiday.com/] fast approaching on July 17, Facebook has taken the opportunity to look at how emojis are being used on Facebook [https://emojipedia.org/facebook/] and Messenger [https://emojipedia.org/messenger/] platforms. Starting with the most popular emojis, these include the obvious 😂 Face With

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 [http://emojiwrap.com/] containing topics in the wider world of emoji and I like to discuss them with a guest in the emoji

Google today released a new beta [https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/06/android-p-beta-2-and-final-apis.html] 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 two changes that give a nod to a potential

A new emoji-like avatar from Apple is called Memoji [https://emojipedia.org/memoji/] and coming to iOS 12 this year. Announced in the keynote for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Memoji is basically Animoji [https://emojipedia.org/animoji/] but with your own face as the character. Like Animoji,

Unicode 11.0 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-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 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/] was announced back in February, and the underlying release required to make this possible

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 didn't get removed, it simply changed appearance. Yesterday's gavel

Users of Twitter for Android may notice an emoji change when accessing the service today. Twemoji [https://emojipedia.org/twitter/] designs are now shown within Twitter, replacing native emojis previously shown from platform vendors such as Google [https://emojipedia.org/google/] and Samsung [https://emojipedia.org/samsung/]. This update appears

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 Hawk's Instagram story [https://www.instagram.com/tonyhawk/], photos show his front license plate featuring

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 [https://emojipedia.org/white-heart/] has been one of the most popular emojis requested [https://blog.emojipedia.org/top-emoji-requests-2018/] by Emojipedia users in 2018. This,

Google's developer conference opened this year with CEO Sundar Pichai addressing the burger emoji “controversy” of 2017. Google previously displayed the 🍔 Burger emoji [https://emojipedia.org/hamburger/] with cheese underneath the burger patty [https://blog.emojipedia.org/how-do-you-like-your-burger-emoji/]. Addressing the matter in a lighthearted way, Pichai tweeted in

It's a flush. Every major vendor has now committed to redesign the gun emoji [https://emojipedia.org/pistol/], replacing it with a water pistol / squirt gun design. It took a while, and then it happened all at once. In the days since Google started rolling out a new

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. While vendors might have baulked at Apple's overnight redesign of the 🔫 Pistol [https://emojipedia.org/

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 emoji keyboard that shows on all others: 🇹🇼 Flag for Taiwan [https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-taiwan/]. > The iOS

One major dictionary company has begun documenting emojis. Is this a sign of things to come? Dictionary.com [http://dictionary.com] has expanded from covering just words, to also including emojis (and memes). Lexicographer Jane Solomon told Time [http://time.com/5186512/emoji-dictionary/]: > “These aren’t just a joke,

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 canes and different types of wheelchairs. Above: Some of the emojis being proposed by Apple. Image: Apple

😂 Face With Tears of Joy [https://emojipedia.org/face-with-tears-of-joy/] was used 6.6 billion times [https://twitter.com/TwitterData/status/673905956909133824] on Twitter in 2015, and has remained the most used emoji on just about every platform ever since. Apple listed [https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/03/face-with-tears-of-joy-most-popular-emoji/] Tears

With 157 new emojis arriving this year [https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/] 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 addition of a white heart emoji. This would complement the 🖤 Black Heart

We heard you. We made some mistakes. And we are fixing them. The news of 157 new emojis in 2018 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/] came earlier this month and if it proved one thing: people are passionate about how their emojis look. Each year Emojipedia creates sample images [https:

157 new emojis [https://blog.emojipedia.org/157-new-emojis-in-the-final-2018-emoji-list/] are coming in 2018, but two of these are already Unicode characters. What does it mean to be turned into an emoji? Included in the new 2018 emoji list [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-11.0/] is a chess pawn [https://emojipedia.org/black-chess-pawn/