OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis
We have Times New Roman! Stop designing new fonts!
Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
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#32I really wish they'd go back to the blobs and stick to them.
tip: on Gboard type the sparkle emoji and then any other emoji and it will suggest the blob version (tho, only as an image)
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#33In today's AI times, I find it a little amusing to think about emojis as an automation of the craft of making ascii art. Is a little different since people don't get paid for that, but there was a creative component to it.
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#34Having read the article, I still don't understand the point of 3D modeling emoji. Even the user interviews didn't mention it, and problems like "what the back of a smiling face looks like" sound entirely self-inflicted. I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms. There are still significant differences between Android and iOS, for example. They recognize how subtle emoji interpretation is, so…
> I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms.
You can't really do this. Or, rather, it's already been done, but people choose not to do this.
Emoji are just unicode characters. How they're displayed depends on the font used. Everyone could choose to use the same emoji font across platforms or apps, but they don't.
The one announced here is open source, for instance, but there's no way Apple is going to adopt it as the system default.
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#35Possibly related: https://gifcities.org/search?q=dollar&offset=0&page_size=200
Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
#36Having read the article, I still don't understand the point of 3D modeling emoji. Even the user interviews didn't mention it, and problems like "what the back of a smiling face looks like" sound entirely self-inflicted. I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms. There are still significant differences between Android and iOS, for example. They recognize how subtle emoji interpretation is, so…
> I was hoping they had standardized how emoji look across platforms. You can't really do this. Or, rather, it's already been done, but people choose not to do this. Emoji are just unicode characters. How they're displayed depends on the font used. Everyone could choose to use the same emoji font across platforms or apps, but they don't. The one announced here is open source, for instance, but there's no way Apple is…
> You can't really do this.
"We've agreed with Apple to use their emoji glyphs on Android by default regardless of font, unless overriden by the user. We understand users might prefer the current designs, and we are proud of the work our team has done, but we believe that consistent communication is more important, and individual users can always enable the override to get the old look back."
> Everyone could choose to use the same emoji font across platforms or apps, but they don't.
Yeah, that's the problem. We can't rely on every user going out of the way to drive adoption, it has to be done centrally.
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#37OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis
They do have to keep drawing them as unicode assigns new codepoints. So they can't really be left alone, other than just leaving the old ones alone and only appending. But I would imagine this trend towards non-raster versions of emojis is more about making updates MUCH easier rather than "innovating emojis" (even if they claim that in their marketing slop)
So many of the newer code points are ZWJ patterns modifying existing emoji. If you already rigged the 3D shark emoji, when unicode decides that :shark: + ZWJ + :family of 3: has to resolve to :horrific shark attack involving a family of 3:, at least that's not too hard.
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#39Re: Designing emoji for the way we communicate today
#40I really wish they'd go back to the blobs and stick to them.
tip: on Gboard type the sparkle emoji and then any other emoji and it will suggest the blob version (tho, only as an image)
You can also use Emoji Kitchen to generate the images if you use a non-Gboard keyboard! https://emojikitchen.dev/