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Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by pling »

aneisf wrote: post #8
pling wrote: post #5

These look really cool as does the technology, but I don't think I've ever used Emoji past a couple of ASCII smilies. My Android handset seems to have them but I don't use them and neither does anyone else I know. Is this a cultural thing I'm missing?

Yeah, they're wildly popular with just about everyone I know 25 and under, especially on sites like Instagram. There's even been a music video created from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlJveN9IkI

Ok thanks. That's well under my age so I understand. Does it replace "TXT SPK" which I'm still too old to use and find terribly annoying?

(I'm sounding like a right grumpy old git here)

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by libraryatnight »

pling wrote: post #5

These look really cool as does the technology, but I don't think I've ever used Emoji past a couple of ASCII smilies. My Android handset seems to have them but I don't use them and neither does anyone else I know. Is this a cultural thing I'm missing?

I think so. They've become quite popular, I first noticed them from Apple users and wondered how they were creating neat little wing-dings type images in their posts, but now it seems everything has emoji options.

Recently getdavidhiggins posted a link on HN to http://emoj.li/ - an Emoji only chat. So it seems to be growing in popularity/ubiquity

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by nostromo »

deaconblues wrote: post #9

Seems neat, and I appreciate the forward-thinking mentality. But, as far as I am aware, emoji are a fad and won't really stand the test of time anyway. Either way, I guess, it's nice to see these easy-to-use, easy-to-create principals in play.

Emoji aren't going anywhere. They've been around in Japan for over a decade and have been enshrined forever in Unicode 6.

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by Synaesthesia »

deaconblues wrote: post #9

Seems neat, and I appreciate the forward-thinking mentality. But, as far as I am aware, emoji are a fad and won't really stand the test of time anyway. Either way, I guess, it's nice to see these easy-to-use, easy-to-create principals in play.

I thought so too, until I started using them in my messages to my friends and girlfriend. Now I find them an integral part of my communications. 😄

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by wubbfindel »

wnevets wrote: post #7

I must be getting old because I hate these things. They're the blink tag on steroids.

The main point of the article has nothing to do with emoji. MS's approach to implementing emoji however could lead to a very useable color font format. Read it.

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by wubbfindel »

deaconblues wrote: post #9

Seems neat, and I appreciate the forward-thinking mentality. But, as far as I am aware, emoji are a fad and won't really stand the test of time anyway. Either way, I guess, it's nice to see these easy-to-use, easy-to-create principals in play.

A few seem to be really missing the point of this article, which has little to do with emoji itself. TLDR; MS's approach to implementing a color emoji font could lead to a very useable color font format.

EDIT: typos

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by Linell »

pling wrote: post #11
aneisf wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, they're wildly popular with just about everyone I know 25 and under, especially on sites like Instagram. There's even been a music video created from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlJveN9IkI

Ok thanks. That's well under my age so I understand. Does it replace "TXT SPK" which I'm still too old to use and find terribly annoying? (I'm sounding like a right grumpy old git here)

Less of a replacement and more of a supplement.

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by aneisf »

pling wrote: post #11
aneisf wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, they're wildly popular with just about everyone I know 25 and under, especially on sites like Instagram. There's even been a music video created from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlJveN9IkI

Ok thanks. That's well under my age so I understand. Does it replace "TXT SPK" which I'm still too old to use and find terribly annoying? (I'm sounding like a right grumpy old git here)

That sort of hyper-abbreviated writing has largely disappeared thanks to spell-check, predictive autocomplete, and so forth.

Emoji can certainly stand in for text, and I see plenty of comments and text messages that consist primarily of emoji. But just as often they will accompany text to add personality or mood the way ASCII smilies or textual kaomoji always have on bulletin boards.

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by ranran876 »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #14
deaconblues wrote: post #9

Seems neat, and I appreciate the forward-thinking mentality. But, as far as I am aware, emoji are a fad and won't really stand the test of time anyway. Either way, I guess, it's nice to see these easy-to-use, easy-to-create principals in play.

I thought so too, until I started using them in my messages to my friends and girlfriend. Now I find them an integral part of my communications. 😄

Oh the irony. Your emoji comes out as a blank square for me (Windows 7 - Opera 12)

Re: Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts?

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Post by cordite »

Having both a color-unaware and color-aware versions can be really useful.

Printing for example would retain the meaning without a gray-scaled rendition losing the details to understand what the symbol might be. (This is just a guess, not an assertion that black-and-white symbols would be used in this context.)

From an accessibility standpoint, consider situations where high-contrast (and or size) is necessary, and it is perfectly legitimate to throw out or ignore the text and background colors for such users.

This solution seems to best satisfy comprehension needs for disabled users as well as printers--not that we need to print the bible translated to emoji any time soon.

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