2015: The Year of Emoji Diversity

Re:2015: The Year of Emoji Diversity by bshimmin on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:57PM (#8559312)

I've been seeing this around the web today, but sort of assumed it was a joke. Is this serious? Can't they all just be made to look like characters from The Simpsons and then, I don't know, maybe people can get on with some more important work?

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Re:2015: The Year of Emoji Diversity by vilhelm_s on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @05:11PM (#8559372)

I guess the current set of glyphs from Apple/Microsoft/Twitter/Google shows why this is difficult: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/full-emoji-list.html

Most of the "simple" things, like smiling/frowning/teardrop use yellow smileys. But there are also some emoji like boy/girl/man with turban/police officer which seem to call for less abstraction, and then the artist has to pick a skin tone.

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Re:2015: The Year of Emoji Diversity by anigbrowl on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @05:40PM (#8559500)

I didn't realize there were 1430 of them. It reminds me of clipart shovelware when CD-ROMs were a new thing and people felt a need to fill up all that empty space with...stuff.

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Re:2015: The Year of Emoji Diversity by cmelbye on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @07:47PM (#8559953)

I guess people's definitions of "important" can differ. Emoji are used in communication between many millions of people every day all across the world. Sounds pretty important to me!

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