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That's why the original ones were bright yellow. Once you make differences you're doomed to maintain them and divide further along the line.
by tomcooks 5y ago
That's why the original ones were bright yellow. Once you make differences you're doomed to maintain them and divide further along the line.
- galgalesh 5y ago> The Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic, yet following the precedents set by the original Japanese carrier images, they are often shown with a light skin tone instead of a more generic (nonhuman) appearance, such as a yellow/orange color or a silhouette. From the original draft introducing skin tones: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2-archive.html#Diversity https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2-archive.html#Div...
- planb 5y agoYou’re probably right. But I’d be interested in how many white people change the default (yellow) vs how many black people do so.