Part of its charm is that ambiguity. I think we can break the rules and put a ♥ up there for Milton.

Thank you for this exception, truly. It was the smallest action, yet it has such an impact here; a very HN tribute to one whose ideas remain.

The heart really jumps off the page, doesn’t it?

As they say in the industry:

It stands out like dog balls.

In a good way. I’m Australian and it’s quite emotive seeing that.

Well done, it’s really beautiful.

Unicode also have hearts that aren’t colored pictures (which gets filtered out if you try to write them on HN apparently) But then again, some people get a black line. I guess we can let others get a colored emoji.

It’s actually down to what Unicode you use. We ran into this on Standard Ebooks tooling for return-to-text arrows in the endnotes, and the solution is to add a U+FE0E character after the emoji to indicate a textual rendering is preferred. More info at https://mts.io/2015/04/21/unicode-symbol-render-text-emoji/

I had no idea about that being a thing.

I was thinking of the symbols that predates emoji, like the white heart suit from the early 90s

https://emojipedia.org/white-heart-suit/

Wow. Never heard of the variation selector before.

If you’re on an OS that lets you manage the fonts yourself you can use GNU Unifont. It has monochrome bitmaps for all of the enoji and fits much better with the rest of the text.

Personally I think colored emoji are a mistake.

I see you chose to use the “BLACK HEART SUIT” symbol (2665); the semantics is heart as in on a playing card, accompanied by the associated symbols. Would not the “BLACK HEART” symbol (1F5A4) be more suitable, as it has no “playing card” semantics?

I tried that one, but it stands out even more garishly. The one that's up there is already too bold relative to the surrounding text—not the most competent tribute to a master designer, but at least our, uh, heart is in the right place.

Why doesn't HN allow emoji usually? Always wondered about that...

Only for the OP and you? What about others who have tried putting it in this thread multiple times with edits and see their love disappear, literally. :p

I didn't think of that. Actually it's easy enough to turn off for a while, but these comments have passed the editing window. If you or anyone wants to add a heart, email [email protected] and we'll reopen your comment for editing so you can.

I'm curious why so many people say it like this, even out loud. I also hear it with other objects of love, like "I heart pizza", or "I heart walks in the park".

"I heart something" is so awkward it's like you have to deliberately ignore the obvious reading ("I love") and choose "I heart", maybe to be playful. Meanwhile, "I love something" is as old as English. I saw the logo when I was a child and immediately read it as "I love New York".

If it sounds like I'm criticizing you, it's more that I am deeply curious! I feel in the minority, because I hear people pronounce it "heart" more often than "love".

I think “heart” has a slightly different meaning. I can’t really explain it, but when people say “heart” the also tilt their head or do the heart symbol with their hands. Just a little different.

It catches your attention because it's complete nonsense at first.

Then you remember from school that both the colour red and the heart symbol mean love, and you desperately want a verb in there.