> You can’t use an emoji that isn’t yet in the standard and deployed by the OS vendors. You can, as long as you control the font. Pick any codepoint in the Pri

> You can’t use an emoji that isn’t yet in the standard and deployed by the OS vendors. You can, as long as you control the font. Pick any codepoint in the Private Use Area and have your font define a picture for it. That's the whole idea behind icon fonts. > People simply can’t understand that their emoji might look different than when they picked it on their iPhone keyboard. Android users who pick an emoji on their Google keyboard and then have something different show up in the message they sent seem to be able to cope somehow. But if you can't get away from imitating the Apple look because of wrong users, you could still try converting it to monochrome. Maybe users will forgive the deviation if it makes sense in context, e.g. for a terminal emulator.