The proposal notes that emoji can technically already be rendered in two palettes: in color ("emoji representation") or in black and white ("text presentation"), depending on what the environment ...

And yet, if you look at the iOS emoji black Santa — especially compared with content-looking emoji Caucasian Santa — something seems not so jolly. He seems, in fact, sad. His mouth, under the ...

When they were first launched in 2015, emoji skin tones corrected an obvious wrong.Previously, if a black man or a Latino woman wanted to text a friend the thumbs-up emoji on an iPhone, a white ...

Google has created a new emoji (variable) font with “Noto Emoji,” whose defining characteristic is a black-and-white design that tries to capture the “simplicity” of the format – and ...

Several of the new emoji included in Unicode Standard 7.0. Unicode Notably, the update does not bring many, if any, more diverse faces and skin tones to the icon set.

Apple on Thursday introduced its new racially diverse emoji, allowing users to cycle through various shades of white and brown to customize their emoji’s skin colors.. Some rejoiced, with ...