The latest episode [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com/episodes/54857-5-emoji-dictator-of-the-world] of the Emoji Wrap podcast is out now [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com/episodes/54857-5-emoji-dictator-of-the-world], with special guest Paul Hunt, a font designer from Adobe: > "Custom emoji fonts, :hedgehog:, Clippy, the difference between gender neutral and gender inclusive, and what

The past week has seen a whirlwind of social media activity around the death of Fidel Castro, Thanksgiving, and Black Friday. We were curious about how people used emojis to discuss these topics so we looked at some data from Twitter. As DJ Khaled is fond of saying, “it’s

Still catching up on emoji news from earlier in the month, here is a proposal [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16308-more-hand-gestures.pdf] from Peter Edberg (Apple) and the Emoji Subcommittee for 10 separate hand gesture emojis. Some of these have been combined from individual proposals, linked within the larger

The latest episode [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com/episodes/53140-4-but-some-people-hated-the-blob] of the Emoji Wrap podcast is out now [https://twitter.com/emojiwrap/status/799080274109689856], with special guests Rachel Been, Agustin Fonts and Mark Davis from Google: > "Live from Emojicon: Emoji professions, why hats on emoji are hard, mixed feelings

While documenting emoji changes is an interesting job, sometimes we like to go outside our usual channels to show off emoji updates in a different light. Cue our friends at Airplane Mode [http://airplanemode.com] who are attempting to make one music video per month, with the help of sponsors

Among the new emoji proposals [https://blog.emojipedia.org/giraffe-pretzel-vampire-emojis-for-2017/] approved at the Unicode Technical Committee meeting last week, there was also a proposal to update some of the old or inadequate emoji glyphs shown in Unicode charts. The document[1] titled Emoji Glyph Updates [http://www.unicode.org/L2/

The Unicode Consortium has today proposed [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16369-emoj-consolidated.pdf] a shortlist of 51 emojis for acceptance in Unicode 10 [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-10.0/]. New emojis include a giraffe, pretzel, vampire, bearded man, soda/milkshake, breastfeeding, a "shhh" face[1], pie, starry-eyed face,

We often see a spike in traffic around Halloween, and this year is no different. Is it because there are so many Halloween-related emojis [http://emojipedia.org/halloween/] to choose from? Emojis trending on Emojipedia this week all have a distinct spooky vibe: * 🎃 Jack-O-Lantern [http://emojipedia.org/jack-o-lantern/] * 🕷 Spider [http:

Email -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're here on the Emojipedia blog, so I can only assume you care about emoji more than the average person. Six months ago, the first Emoji Wrap [http://emojiwrap.com] email newsletter was sent out to a few hundred subscribers. Since then, over 5,000 people

New emoji proposals to be discussed at the next Unicode Technical Committee meeting include Almond, Breastfeeding, Coconut, and others. Above: Mockups of the latest emoji proposals. Unicode's next quarterly Technical Committee meeting is to be held in the second week of November, hosted by IBM. The following emoji

The latest episode [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com/episodes/48304-3-how-would-i-draw-a-gun] of the Emoji Wrap podcast is out now, with special guest Gedeon Maheux [http://twitter.com/gedeon/]: > "Messenger and Twemoji, iOS 10 designs, more on the pistol emoji, and a look at iOS 10 stickers. With Jeremy Burge and

Apple today released the latest update [https://sixcolors.com/post/2016/09/sierra-review/] to OS X, referred to as macOS 10.12 Sierra. This update brings iOS 10 emoji updates [http://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-10.0/] to the Mac, but also uses its own non-Unicode names for each emoji. For

Those planning on submitting an emoji proposal to Unicode should be aware that the deadline for 2017 approvals is October 1, 2016. Unicode states [http://www.unicode.org/emoji/selection.html#timeline]: > To be considered for inclusion in the release of the Unicode Standard for a given year, proposals

Got iOS 10? Love Flags? We have created a custom sticker pack for iOS which contains all of the U.S. State Flags (plus Washington D.C.). You can get it right here: [https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/u.s.-state-flag-stickers/id1151624498?mt=8&at=1l3vrTu] Designed by

It's September 2016 and major vendors have prioritised differently when it comes to emoji support. Knowing which emojis to use safely involves keeping track of what is supported where. Let this be a brief guide at what's out there. Unicode 9 Release in June 2016, Unicode