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An interview with an Apple emoji designer
- amelius 4mo agoIn case anyone is actually interested in the emoji: https://emojipedia.org/apple https://emojipedia.org/apple
- Aissen 4mo agoMore specifically, it was this set: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2 https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2 Interesting tidbit: > Emoji support required iPhone OS 2.2 and a SoftBank SIM card.
- amelius 4mo agoTo be honest, the images look like things I've seen a hundred times over in comic books and not much more original than GenAI.
- throawayonthe 4mo agois that not sorta the point? i don't get the genai reference
- reaperducer 4mo agonot much more original than GenAI. What exactly do you think the "GenAI" trained on?
- TazeTSchnitzel 4mo agoThese are very nostalgic. The way Apple's emoji look has subtly changed since then.
- Tepix 4mo agoAre the emojis on Apple (macOS, iOS etc) vector graphics these days?
- LoganDark 4mo agoThey are not. They are perhaps higher resolution than they once were, but still raster: https://logandark.net/files/328S6690-9Q368809-16843Q53-RR2SN439/vomitemoji.png https://logandark.net/files/328S6690-9Q368809-16843Q53-RR2SN...
- NoSalt 4mo agoWhy does that site feel like I am reading typed text on paper?
- reaperducer 4mo agoDid you print it out?
- NoSalt 4mo agoLOL
- CharlesW 4mo agoIt's a combination of the layout, the typeface (https://monokrom.no/fonts/satyr https://monokrom.no/fonts/satyr), and the thoughtful typography.
- alnwlsn 4mo agoSerif font?
- CGMthrowaway 4mo agoThe letters are super fuzzy (a ton of anti-aliasing, even on the bottoms of the letters where it's not needed)
- holistio 4mo agoThere is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.
- wpm 4mo agoBe the petty, small change you wish to see in the world: https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode
- Jtarii 4mo agoGotta love websites that hijack basic browser functions, in this case forcing smooth scroll on.
- hollerith 4mo agoGotta love browsers that let websites hijack basic browser functions.
- embedding-shape 4mo agoSeems to be some sort of design agency or similar, it's basically internet-law at this point that those always fuck with the scroll movements of your browser, for some reason.
- frollogaston 4mo agoYeah I felt that and left so fast, forget that
- holistio 4mo agoI will be. Thanks. By the way, Walnut Creek is less than 100 miles from Cupertino. I love walnuts.
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- aforty 4mo agoSo cool to get the background story on this. I remember adding the Japanese keyboard here in the US just so I could get access to emojis.
- ollien 4mo agoIf the author is reading this, the hyperlink to the book in the first paragraph is broken. Looks like it's attempting to direct you to an absolute url that was meant to be relative. <a href="https://books/face-with-tears-of-joy">
- 9dev 4mo ago> We mapped almost 1:1 to SoftBank’s set, though Apple chose to omit a few of the more risqué ones. Which are these risqué emojis mentioned here? I don't think I have ever seen any that are even slightly graphic, which is probably why all the emoji slang conventions have spread like fire (Aubergine, Peach, etc.)
- stringfood 4mo agolong eggplant and a smaller Pinching Hand emoji were probably the first to go
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- pimlottc 4mo agoThat's a good question. Comparing the Softbank emoji from June 2008 [0] and the initial batch of Apple emoji that shipping in iPhone OS 2.2 (Nov 2008) [1], it doesn't look like there are any missing at all, it's a perfect 1:1 mapping. 0: https://emojipedia.org/softbank/2008 https://emojipedia.org/softbank/2008 1: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2 https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2
- frollogaston 4mo agoMaybe edit rather than omit? Apple changed the people kissing with actual lip contact, the 1910s-looking cancan dancers, and the stink lines on the poop.
- edm0nd 4mo agoIts kinda odd how a lot of the major tech companies have self censored emojis like they are some savior of the planet for doing so. For example the gun emoji by turning it into a water pistol instead of a real looking firearm handgun lol. WOW THEY SURE CAUSED COUNTLESS LIVES TO BE SAVED W THAT ONE SINGLE MOVE!
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- dwflanagan 4mo agoI just finished Keith Houston's previous book _Empire of the Sum_, a history of calculators, I'll be reading this next.
- raincole 4mo agoOff topic: Perhaps it's just me, but I have a pet peeve about emojis in anything formal. Even before LLMs, I instinctively took a repo less seriously when README.md had emojis in every section. And now LLMs have popularized that style, it's the first signal for me to vibe-detect AI repos. I do use emojis. I love them, actually, but only in message apps.
- thenthenthen 4mo agoOr SSID’s
- geophph 4mo agoNot just you!
- Affric 4mo agoEmoji are fun to use because they make written communication more human… corporations or LLMs using them just comes off as insincere.
- ErigmolCt 4mo agoEmoji work well when they feel like a tiny bit of personality leaking through the text
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- frollogaston 4mo agoI don't like to see them anywhere. They were cool for a while back in version 1.0 when there were a few that everyone knew and used in creative ways, before Apple* decided to make so many that you need a search bar. It's kinda like Pokémon. At this point I only get them in text messages from old people. * yeah I know technically the Unicode Consortium, but Apple pushed it hard
- thenthenthen 4mo agoModifying the Universal: a seminal piece on emoji’s and possibly why/how from a humanities perspective: https://youtu.be/ZP2bQ_4Q7DY?si=TIl4Zhs2X2ZgBJfY https://youtu.be/ZP2bQ_4Q7DY?si=TIl4Zhs2X2ZgBJfY
- ebbi 4mo ago> and then through to Steve Jobs for final approval I miss Steve Jobs
- ErigmolCt 4mo agoCultural impact often comes from boring product work done carefully