Google Debuts Emoji 16.0 Support

Today Google has officially unveiled its full-color designs for Unicode's latest approved emojis, which include a smiley face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint.

Keith Broni

• 2 min read
Google Debuts Emoji 16.0 Support

Google has officially unveiled its full-color designs for today's Emoji 16.0 recommendations, which include a face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint.

Above: Google's Noto Color Emoji designs for the new emojis that were recommended today as part of Emoji 16.0.

There are a total of eight new emojis in today's Google release:

These new emojis have been uploaded to the Noto Color Emoji's Google Fonts page.

They have yet to be uploaded to Google's Noto Color Emoji Github page or their Gstatic servers, though they are expected to do so in the near future.

This release coincides with today's formal approval of Unicode's Emoji 16.0 recommendations, from which all these new emojis are drawn.

Today's emoji update is expected to be released progressively across different Google platforms such as Chrome OS, Gmail, YouTube, and various Android devices throughout 2025. As per Google's press release on World Emoji Day 2025:

These new emoji will be available as a web font in both color and monochrome this September, on Android phones by March 2025 and in your favorite Google products in early 2025.

Today Google has also released support for Emoji 16.0 within Noto Color Emoji's minimalistic companion font - Noto Emoji.

💻 Release

As discussed above, these new emoji designs for Emoji 16.0 have been released via Google's Noto Color Emoji font page, meaning they are likely considered final and almost certainly not undergo further revisions before release.

These new emojis are expected to be released progressively across different Google platforms such as Chrome OS, Gmail, YouTube, and various Android devices throughout 2025.

Once again, as per Google's press release on World Emoji Day 2025:

These new emoji will be available as a web font in both color and monochrome this September, on Android phones by March 2025 and in your favorite Google products in early 2025.

In the meantime, you can download the font files for both Noto Color Emoji and Noto Emoji via their respective Google Fonts pages.