The Unicode Consortium today announced the possibility of color variations within the emoji character set, to be discussed at the forthcoming Technical Committee meeting. Until now, Unicode has taken the position that each emoji should not be too specific where possible, and that one emoji should represent an entire category

The Unicode Consortium has today released version 12 of the Unicode Standard. The release includes 61 new emoji characters and 493 non-emoji characters. This follows last month's announcement of the final list of 230 new emojis for 2019 [https://blog.emojipedia.org/230-new-emojis-in-final-

The final emoji list for 2019 has now been approved by the Unicode Consortium and includes a total of 230 new emojis [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.0/] coming to major platforms this year. Additions include previously drafted [https://blog.emojipedia.org/white-heart-flamingo-added-as-emoji-candidates/] candidates

While iOS users are awaiting the final release of iOS 12.1 with support for Emoji 11.0 (the 2018 emoji update); work continues on the 2019 release of the Unicode Standard. Today's Emoji 12.0 beta announcement from Unicode provides a chance for vendors and implementers to

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

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,

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

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.

Unicode has announced four new draft emoji candidates for 2018: swan, badger, infinity symbol[1] and pirate flag. These come as the result of decisions made at the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meeting at Apple last week.[2] And don't worry redheads: your feedback has been heard! The

The Unicode Consortium today released version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard. This means that the code points required for new emoji support are now considered final, and stable to be included in updates from major vendors such as Apple [http://emojipedia.org/apple/], Google [http://emojipedia.org/google/], Microsoft

Unicode meets next week for UTC151: the quarterly Unicode Technical Committee meeting where upcoming proposals are discussed. On the emoji agenda this month are a number of new items, namely the Emoji 5.0 updates which contains the final 2017 emoji list. While the emoji list for this year was

Unicode president Mark Davis today announced that flags of England, Scotland, and Wales have been approved as part of the forthcoming Emoji 5.0 standard. These are the first three flags approved[1] by the Unicode Technical Committee which make use of Unicode's new regional flag support. Above:

Unicode today announced a proposed update [http://blog.unicode.org/2016/12/proposed-update-utr-51-unicode-emoji.html] which adds support for regional flags[1] such as England, Scotland, Wales[2], or states of the USA. Above: Flags for England, Scotland, and Wales proposed [https://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-

Still catching up on emoji news from earlier in the month, here is a proposal 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 document. Included on the list are: * Shaka * ILY

Unicode this month released a draft update [http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/proposed.html] to TR-51, or in human terms, the document that describes what's-what's what in emoji standards. This draft is for Unicode Emoji Version 4.0: an update to Unicode's

In June 2016, 72 new emojis [https://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/] were released as part of Unicode 9.0 [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-9.0/]. Recent history would have suggested that the next new emojis would be coming in June 2017 as part

Version 9.0 of the Unicode Standard has today been released, including 72 new emojis [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-9.0/] such as the shrug [http://emojipedia.org/shrug/], facepalm [http://emojipedia.org/face-palm/], fingers crossed [http://emojipedia.org/hand-with-index-and-middle-fingers-crossed/] and selfie [http:

Update: Unicode 9.0 has now been released [https://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unicode 9.0 [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-9.0/] includes 72 new emojis, and is scheduled for release on June 21, 2016. We have created mockups for every emoji, showing

Three new emoji candidates were approved at the 147th Unicode Technical Committee meeting, held in the week of May 9 at Adobe HQ in San Jose. A proposal to Expand Emoji Professions gained considerable attention [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/10/female-emojis-google-equality] globally, and some

The Unicode Consortium has today announced [http://blog.unicode.org/2016/02/unicode-candidate-emoji.html] five new emoji candidates [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-10.0/] for a future release of the Unicode Standard. The candidates are: * Face With One Eyebrow Raised [http://emojipedia.org/face-one-eyebrow-raised/] * Dumpling

A new proposal [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15274-emoji-modifiers.pdf] from the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee recommends updating the Sleuth or Spy Emoji [http://emojipedia.org/sleuth-or-spy/] to allow for skin tone modifiers. First introduced [https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-9-1-emoji-changelog/] as part