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I'm all for inclusion, but it's not like anyone's skin is the yellow color of the default faces. Instinctively I agree with you, but: does that yellow color re

I'm all for inclusion, but it's not like anyone's skin is the yellow color of the default faces. Instinctively I agree with you, but: does that yellow color remind you of the Simpsons? On that show, the white people are yellow but the brown people are brown. The yellow isn’t really neutral.

niceairport 5y ago
Ah yes, the Simpsons, the source of truth for all things life.
1337shadow 5y ago
Exactly why I want Cyan, but it's not available, I feel excluded, apparently the community needs to be more inclusive to people who want to identify with Cyan colored emojis.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago
  Jokes aside, the programmer in me wonders why there are individual skin tone code points in the first place, instead of generic (colorless) "skin tone modifier", which would then be followed by a color codepoint from a palette of named colors, say 256 of those. So I'd write: Rightward Hand + Generic Skin Tone + Green, ZJW, Leftward Hand + Generic Skin Tone + Blue, to express a handshake between an Orion and an Andorian. Or, if 256 colors are not enough, you could write a combination of RGBA Color Modifier + eight characters in [0-9A-Fa-F] range... This would also help with hair colors and bunch of other stuff that has separate code points at the moment. I have a feeling we'll end up with an approximation of this at some point, maybe a decade from now.
throwaway210222 5y ago
> On [the Simpsons], the white people are yellow but the brown people are brown. To be fair, the asians are yellow in the Simpsons :) [1]. [1] https://tokyofox.net/2015/02/13/japan-related-references-in-the-simpsons/ https://tokyofox.net/2015/02/13/japan-related-references-in-... I'm truly disappointed the woke haven't pursued this.
- iainmerrick 5y ago
  What kind of response are you hoping for?

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I'm all for inclusion, but it's not like anyone's skin is the yellow color of the default faces. Instinctively I agree with you, but: does that yellow color re

by iainmerrick 5y ago

niceairport 5y ago
Ah yes, the Simpsons, the source of truth for all things life.
1337shadow 5y ago
Exactly why I want Cyan, but it's not available, I feel excluded, apparently the community needs to be more inclusive to people who want to identify with Cyan colored emojis.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago
  Jokes aside, the programmer in me wonders why there are individual skin tone code points in the first place, instead of generic (colorless) "skin tone modifier", which would then be followed by a color codepoint from a palette of named colors, say 256 of those. So I'd write: Rightward Hand + Generic Skin Tone + Green, ZJW, Leftward Hand + Generic Skin Tone + Blue, to express a handshake between an Orion and an Andorian. Or, if 256 colors are not enough, you could write a combination of RGBA Color Modifier + eight characters in [0-9A-Fa-F] range... This would also help with hair colors and bunch of other stuff that has separate code points at the moment. I have a feeling we'll end up with an approximation of this at some point, maybe a decade from now.
throwaway210222 5y ago
> On [the Simpsons], the white people are yellow but the brown people are brown. To be fair, the asians are yellow in the Simpsons :) [1]. [1] https://tokyofox.net/2015/02/13/japan-related-references-in-the-simpsons/ https://tokyofox.net/2015/02/13/japan-related-references-in-... I'm truly disappointed the woke haven't pursued this.
- iainmerrick 5y ago
  What kind of response are you hoping for?