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Openmoji
- eatyourglory 3y agoInteresting to see that this project has the same license as Twemoji.
- tokai 3y agoWhat's interesting about it? It's just CC-BY SA.
- RockRobotRock 3y agoThese emojis grew on me after a while. I still think Twitter's open source emojis look better, but this is a really cool project that shows off more creativity.
- klaustopher 3y agoOh wow. I really love the drawn style of those!
- looping8 3y agoThese are very pretty, I really like the line breaks when an element is added over the face, such as in "face with tears of joy" or "star-struck". But some of them look a little off for me, like the skull or the baby emoji.
- al_be_back 3y agolooks like an opensource icon framework to me
- sverhagen 3y agoYeah, I came here to ask if the professionals in this field draw a clear distinction between icons and emojis. I did a quick search in there for names of icons for which in my little frontend projects I use like Bootstrap Icons, and the results seemed fine. So, are icons and emojis really all the same things? Because, if so, Openmoji seems to offer quite a bit more elements to pick from.
- tuukkah 3y agoSure, most emojis can be useful as icons and vice versa. Technically, both can be available as SVG files and as Unicode characters in a font.
- slmjkdbtl 3y agoNot sure if there's a consensus on the definitions, personally I use word "icon" to describe small graphics that serves functional purpose in GUI, and word "emoji" to describe small graphics that expresses one's personal emotion.
- hannes0 3y agoThey are all pictograms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictogram https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictogram Emojis are sometimes ideograms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideogram https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideogram
- techn00 3y agoI prefer Noto Emoji: https://emojipedia.org/google https://emojipedia.org/google imo the best ones are on Apple, and I'm saying this as an android user which happens to use Signal (which uses the apple emojis)
- speak_plainly 3y agoMicrosoft Teams has some of the most consistently designed emoji: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-all-available-emojis-in-microsoft-teams-free-b9c2ccda-9ad9-4dbb-a25d-bbcebf6311ae https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-all-availabl... Apple’s are good but are not super consistent in terms of style.
- guitarbill 3y agoApple's, Noto, and OpenMoji are far more legible to me than Teams. I'll take being able to quickly recognize the emojis over consistency any day.
- bloopernova 3y agoI _loathe_ the Teams emoji, but then again the entire application is utterly awful. I'd much rather use these openmoji in something like Slack or Matrix.
- hbn 3y agoTheir tongue out emoji (which I use quite frequently) looks ridiculous. Pretty much every emoji set has a neutral looking face with the tongue out, indicating a very slight amount of unseriousness. Meanwhile the Teams one has big anime-esque smiling eyes that looks straight up goofy. Also their thumbs up has such a fat hand you can barely tell it's a hand or where the fingers are. But yes, far from the biggest issues with this stupid app.
- zapzupnz 3y agoI had to zoom in to see there was a tongue. It looks like an open mouth. What a terrible design.
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- npteljes 3y agoCommunication is not cancer.
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- zapzupnz 3y ago> it's an unnecessary noise and adds nothing of value. Emoji invented for the purpose of augmenting communication for Japanese mobile phone users in the 90s, starting with NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode (a kind of competitor to WAP). Pictures, especially coloured ones added later, add a wealth of information to a language like Japanese where phrases can only be shortened by so much before becoming nonsense due to the writing system (not to mention a smaller character limit per message). Its purpose is communication. It was made for communication. It is communication. If you refuse to see the communicative value in it, that's your own issue, nobody else's.
- npteljes 3y agoThat's flat-out wrong, emojis are communication. Necessity and value can be argued, for example they are pretty much blocked here in HN, yet we still communicate just fine. There is clear need for them though, as people used emoticons extensively in textual communication on the 90s internet too, and there's usage even before that, centuries back[0]. Text is a very limited representation of human communication, missing the intonation, gestures, facial expressions, volume of speech, and other things too maybe. Emoji can supplement that somewhat, so that's a bit of value that they add. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History
- tuukkah 3y agoGreat idea to spread the work among students! "OpenMoji is an open-source project of the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd by Benedikt Groß, Daniel Utz, 70+ students and external contributors." An assignment for each student could be to come up with one emoji currently missing from Unicode. The extensions they have so far seem very useful: UI elements, field-specific concepts, regional foods and animals, e.g. https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-openmoji%2Ffood-drink https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-openmoji%2Ffood-d...
- zoidb 3y agoNice to see this posted on HN! A while back ago I used them for the design of a site a built https://cmdchallenge.com/ https://cmdchallenge.com/ which gives it a nice feel of achievement badges without using standard emoji characters that may look different depending on the client.
- lionkor 3y agoWhy is there U+E183 "Trump"[1] that is just a caricature of Trump? Seems a little bit daft to add any kind of political bias? I would expect extensions to Unicode like that to be pretty universal, and to not include specific current political figures. Same with Great Thunberg[2] -- I just dont see why these characters are in any way revelant enough. Do we add Putin? Do we add Einstein? Do we add Hitler? Do we add all the Caesars? How about emperor of the holy roman empire? Oppenheimer? Ghandi? There should certainly be a line. Last thing that needs to be more political are emojis. [1]: https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E183/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E183/ [2]: https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E188/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E188/
- throw_a_grenade 3y agoU+E000 through U+F8FF is "private use area": https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf . Those characters were not "added to Unicode", but every font is free to add whatever they want there. Those are obviously not interoperable, that is, other font designers can place entirely different characters there.
- lionkor 3y agoOf course, yes, but for an "OpenMoji" project I would have expected a bit more professionalism.
- masukomi 3y ago... for a project done by a bunch of volunteers and young students likely having fun making little graphics without compensation, and with a name that involves a casual shortening of the key term ..... you expected "professionalism" young students... and random volunteers... who aren't getting paid... do you _really_ think that an expectation of "professionalism" is one that lines up well with the reality of the project?
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- beardyw 3y agoJust looking at the source, the SVGs can be made smaller. Would be good to have a minified set.
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- totetsu 3y agoRelated in name only. Open emoji battler https://game.open-emoji-battler.community/ https://game.open-emoji-battler.community/
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- Theodores 3y agoThese are great. I wanted a few icons of food things and everything I wanted is here. I was procrastinating on HN putting off this task, these emoji have bounced me back into doing, not procrastinating. Thanks to whomever posted this.
- zegl 3y agoI really like this project, and it's fun to see that they are adding their own extra emojis as well.
- timeon 3y agoMenu in Library does not work in Safari.
- Bellamy 3y agoI thought emojis definition is that it's supported by major browsers/phones/etc.
- Fileformat 3y agoShameless self promotion: While I use Emojipedia to search for emoji (and view previous versions, which is really great), they don't link to the SVGs, so... [Awesome Emoji](https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/awesome-emoji https://github.com/VectorLogoZone/awesome-emoji) with links to the SVGs for any emoji sets that I could find. Contributions welcome!
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- drewmate 3y agoSome pretty delightful (ab)use of ZWJ[0] to come up with unique new "characters": * nail and gear flag [1] * united federation of planets flag (star trek) [2] * HAL 9000 [3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_joiner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_joiner [1] https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F3F3-FE0F-200D-1F4CC-200D-2699-FE0F/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F3F3-FE0F-200D-1F4CC-200... [2] https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F3F3-FE0F-200D-1F7E6-200D-1F30C/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F3F3-FE0F-200D-1F7E6-200... [3] https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-25C9-FE0F-200D-1F534-200D-25AE-FE0F/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-25C9-FE0F-200D-1F534-200D...
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- jonathankoren 3y agoGalaxy? When Vulcan salute was RIGHT THERE!
- darau1 3y agoCan I finally have my :dumpster-fire: emoji?
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoTime to make a Pegasus emoji using racehorse+ZWJ+wing.
- gizajob 3y agoI'd love the flag of Aboriginal Australia to be included too! I always think it's really disappointing that it isn't included anywhere, particularly if Star Trek is going to be represented. Any help?
- Biganon 3y ago> Animals with a big body are illustrated from the side. Proceed to illustrate the rabbit from the side, but the lion from the front. How big is this rabbit??
- thombat 3y agoAs big as the Cave of Caerbannog?
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- steamer25 3y agoThe library reminds me a bit of a page I threw together to browse the EmojiOne set: https://stime.tech/emoji-explorer/index.html https://stime.tech/emoji-explorer/index.html Give it a minute to load the JS, and then you'll get a dialog for each icon/character you click. My favorite part was using XSLT over the original SVG data to generate black and white "coloring sheets". Most of them turned out pretty decent. E.g., https://stime.tech/emoji-explorer/assets/coloring/emoji-snail.svg https://stime.tech/emoji-explorer/assets/coloring/emoji-snai...
- creativenolo 3y agoObjectively the need to attribute limits the usefulness of an asset like this at scale or even, when not at scale, by just adding complexity to ‘do things right’. I’m not saying that the limitation is not worth it. But I wonder if creators factor this in when choosing a license. If you want to make an artefact that reaches a huge scale, become a standard, etc. mandatory attribution hinders adoption. If it is about visibility (and ego) it makes sense. If it is about profit by limiting commercial use, maybe but why not just make it paid for and profit from all uses.
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- jonathankoren 3y agoBeyond its value as an art project (which this project seems to be), I’ve never understood the desire — let alone need — for custom emoji drawings for the official Unicode emojis. The OS already support these. You’re just reinventing the wheel. It’s not licensing, otherwise the very font you’re looking at is illegal. If it for some he idea that some novel emoji isn’t supported until someone updates; well, that’s like what? A couple of weeks every four years? Even then, that doesn’t explain why the basic smiley gets revamped, that’s over a decade old. Consistency? Please. Your app is already inconsistent across platforms due to platform conventions, and you’ve made your app inconsistent with every other app. In the end me, we’re left with one reason. Perhaps the most common reason why anything is done in big tech (and let’s be honest, that’s who the little people take their cues from), vanity. Apple is the canonical design. Sure, maybe some OS needs a font, but there’s literally no reason X, or Facebook, or Samsung need their own font.
- leipert 3y agoAny color the customer wants, as long as it’s black. Following your argument we also just need one font covering all Unicode in general. I am happy that there is variants to choose from and that apparently the designs also influence each other. Also licensing, which you dismissed handwavingly, is an issue because e.g. Apple doesn’t distribute their emoji for other platforms, do they? Easily more than half of devices on the web are not Apple devices. At least 70% as per https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share
- dvrp 3y agoWhy is open-source ugly in general?
- kamel3d 3y agoI whish they were better looking, I would have updated my website https://www.emojilo.com https://www.emojilo.com
- pimlottc 3y agoIf you want to just see the emoji set, I found the listings at Emojipedia [0] to be nice than OpenMoji's page [1], which only shows a few per page. 0: https://emojipedia.org/openmoji https://emojipedia.org/openmoji 1: https://openmoji.org/library/ https://openmoji.org/library/
- OJFord 3y agoThe master branch 'dev catalog' seems better in that respect: https://hfg-gmuend.github.io/openmoji/ https://hfg-gmuend.github.io/openmoji/ (That is, AIUI, the 'next' version of the emojis, not that the format of the library/catalog itself is due to change.)
- joveian 3y agoThere is a new build system for fonts since the last release that has a wider range of color font types. I found the COLRv0 format fixed some issues I was having. The new formats aren't in the 14.0 release. I much prefer the 2D style of OpenMoji to 3D emoji fonts.