For emoji lovers, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: when we learn the latest batch of emoji likely to end up on our phones and tablets in the coming months. But this year’s candidates look a ...

In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter emoji. You can find those emoji now on your Android and iPhone devices, as ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

When cute smiley faces started popping up in text messages in Japan during the 1990s, software engineers like Mark Davis didn’t know if the digital images called emojis were just a fad. But by 2006, ...

The list of new emoji up for approval includes a phoenix, a breaking chain, a lime, a person nodding or shaking their head, plus a handful more. These are being proposed to the Unicode Consortium in ...

Following a pandemic-related delay, the Unicode Consortium has finalized Unicode 14.0. In all, the update adds 838 characters to the text standard. Of those 838 characters, 37 represent new emoji that ...

In the world of emojis, interracial couples had virtually no options in terms of skin tone. But the emoji gods, otherwise known as the Unicode Consortium, recently rectified that, approving 71 new ...

When cute smiley faces started popping up in text messages in Japan during the 1990s, software engineers like Mark Davis didn’t know if the digital images called emojis were just a fad. But by 2006, ...

The Unicode Consortium today released the list of new emojis that are coming in the Emoji 14 update, giving us a look at the new characters that we can expect to see introduced on Apple devices later ...

Unicode Consortium has published a blog post that details the most used emojis of 2021. The list keeps tears of joy on the top spot, followed by red heart, rolling on the floor laughing, thumbs up, ...