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What about OpenMoji? https://openmoji.org/ https://openmoji.org/ Twitter’s emoji is also open source: https://twemoji.twitter.com/ https://twemoji.twitter.com/

• Closi 6y ago
  Where’s that XKCD about ‘if you create another standard then you just have the same issue you had before but +1’
  • mhh__ 6y ago
    And? It's the only XKCD I really don't like. There's one more standard, but you could say that about any standardisation effort. These things take a really long time, trying again isn't a bad thing. Most software standards (and even hardware to some extent) aren't that complicated, if you absolutely nail your design people will switch and yours may dominate. If it doesn't then there's no real harm done because no one's going to use it.
    • Closi 6y ago
      If your goal is to unify emojis (or reduce variation in emoji), and you create an entirely new set of open source emojis different to other sets of more widely used open source emojis, you have increased variation rather than reduced it. The xkcd works because unless everyone is willing to adopt the new standard, then you further fragment the market. There is zero evidence that the dominant players want to converge here (except maybe if everyone adopts their design!).