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No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour. Instead, OSes use a font fallback list where other fonts are substitut
by user-the-name 5y ago
No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour.
Instead, OSes use a font fallback list where other fonts are substituted in for characters that are missing, and each OS provides one font that includes all the emoji as colour bitmaps.
- ygra 5y agoThere's various ways how to do those in fonts. I think Apple uses bitmaps. Microsoft uses several overlaid glyphs in different colors. And there's also a way of embedding SVG as glyphs in fonts.
- bmn__ 5y ago> No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour. You're mistaken, that does not reflect reality. https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/ https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/ https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji I have specifically installed this font in my X/Linux system to get colourful emoji.