Why decisions on emoji design should be made more inclusive 😕
Jul15
You canât deny the popularity of emoji. If the fact that July 17th is World Emoji Day isnât enough to convince you, then consider that the Emoji Movie will be released in early August, and that Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 was the emoji: âface with tears of joyâ 😂. But where do emoji come from? While the term has been widened to refer to any digital pictograph, true emoji are those that are included in the Unicode Standard, the international standard for digital fonts that aims to make a character available regardless of platform or operating system. That is, the…
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