Today JoyPixels has releases the latest incarnation of its Unicode compliant emoji set: JoyPixels 6.5. New additions include a Face in Clouds and a Mending Heart, alongside the considerable number of design changes across existing gesture and symbol emojis.

Above: All the new emojis in JoyPixels 6.5.

JoyPixels 6.5 includes 217 new emojis, with all 217 drawn from Emoji 13.1. Additionally, this update features a large number of changes to a variety of designs, with extensive changes across gestures, objects, and symbols.

The large number of changes to previously-released emoji designs has been a long-standing hallmark of JoyPixels updates, and JoyPixels 6.5 is no different. Several hundred emojis have been updated, with all hand gestures and flags been modified in some fashion.

🆕 New

JoyPixels 6.5 includes all 217 new emojis introduced in Emoji 13.1. Amongst them are three new smiley emojis, namely 😮‍💨 Face Exhaling, 😵‍💫 Face with Spiral Eyes, and 😶‍🌫️ Face in Clouds.

Two new heart emojis are included in JoyPixels 6.5. They are ❤️‍🔥 Heart on Fire and ❤️‍🩹 Mending Heart.

This update also introduces two new gender-specifying variants of 🧔 Person: Beard^[1]: 🧔‍♀️ Woman: Beard and 🧔‍♂️ Man: Beard.

Emoji 13.1 introduces a large number of new
skin tone combinations for the 💑 Couple with Heart and 💏 Kiss emojis.

Above: 💑 Couple with Heart now comes with a choice of skin tones for either person in JoyPixels 6.5.

Above: 💏 Kiss now comes with a choice of skin tones for either person in JoyPixels 6.5.

🆙 Changed

😷 Face with Medical Mask now has a more detailed blue surgical mask.

🧔 Person: Beard now has a gender-inclusive appearance, in keeping with recent changes to other emojis which don't specify a gender.

🧜 Merperson no long has their arms folded, alongside a new top and a more colorful tail.

🛀 Person Taking Bath has a new shower head and more numerous bubbles.

👏 Clapping Hands has a more rounded shape and now features fingernails.

One of the 🫂 People Hugging now has distinguishable thumbs and a protruding ear.

The 🦠 Microbe now resembles a virus^[2] as opposed to a bacteria, akin to Apple's design.

💉 Syringe now has a blue needle adaptor and hub, as well as a more detailed plunger.

🫐 Blueberries now features two green leaves.

The 🪤 Mouse Trap is now a non-lethal contraption.

The bridge shown in the 🌁 Foggy emoji has additional details, further echoing the Golden Gate bridge.

The ♿ Wheelchair Symbol now uses the more active Accessible Icon Project style image.

The 🆒 Cool Button has a new design echoing Facebook's current design.

🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Flag now displays as a circular symbol, as per most other flag emojis in the JoyPixels set.

The 🇳🇵 Flag of Nepal now displays as two pennons without any circular white space.

📶 Release

JoyPixels 6.5 is available now. Like the previous JoyPixels update, it is available on a freemium basis, with licensing required for some but not all usage types.

Read more about the 6.5 release announcement and related licencing details on the JoyPixels website.

• Browse every JoyPixels 6.5 emoji
• All the new emojis in JoyPixels 6.5
• All the changed emojis in JoyPixels 6.5
• JoyPixels 6.0 Emoji Changelog