Beyond 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 offic

Beyond 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.