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An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Re: An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Post by holistio »

wvbdmp wrote: post #17
j1000 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?

What’s next, a cowboy emoji? A ninja emoji? But seriously, as much as I like emojis, I kind of feel like they should stick to emotions. Maybe other intangible things. They’re hard to convey verbally (and succinctly), simple concrete nouns are good for a bit of fun and for UI icons, but really not very useful if we’re being honest. Unless you’re texting with a lizard, or my lazy elementary-school niece who shouldn’t r…

Or you're texting with people whose native language uses a logographic system.

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Post by basch »

blanched wrote: post #11
dagmx wrote: post #10

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Simply because nobody has successfully pitched the Unicode group to add one. Anyone can pitch new emoji, they just have to go through the fairly easy but strict formal process.

Alex Schmidt, a humor writer (formerly of Cracked and others) did this process for the bison emoji. I enjoyed his “miniseries” about it: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/

does the reverse notebooklm exist yet that turns podcasts into longform journalism?

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Post by embedding-shape »

Jtarii wrote: post #19
wpm wrote: post #6

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Be the petty, small change you wish to see in the world: https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode

Gotta love websites that hijack basic browser functions, in this case forcing smooth scroll on.

Seems to be some sort of design agency or similar, it's basically internet-law at this point that those always fuck with the scroll movements of your browser, for some reason.

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Post by 9dev »

> We mapped almost 1:1 to SoftBank’s set, though Apple chose to omit a few of the more risqué ones.

Which are these risqué emojis mentioned here? I don't think I have ever seen any that are even slightly graphic, which is probably why all the emoji slang conventions have spread like fire (Aubergine, Peach, etc.)

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Post by stringfood »

9dev wrote: post #27

> We mapped almost 1:1 to SoftBank’s set, though Apple chose to omit a few of the more risqué ones. Which are these risqué emojis mentioned here? I don't think I have ever seen any that are even slightly graphic, which is probably why all the emoji slang conventions have spread like fire (Aubergine, Peach, etc.)

long eggplant and a smaller Pinching Hand emoji were probably the first to go

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stringfood wrote: post #28
9dev wrote: post #27

> We mapped almost 1:1 to SoftBank’s set, though Apple chose to omit a few of the more risqué ones. Which are these risqué emojis mentioned here? I don't think I have ever seen any that are even slightly graphic, which is probably why all the emoji slang conventions have spread like fire (Aubergine, Peach, etc.)

long eggplant and a smaller Pinching Hand emoji were probably the first to go

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