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I've been seeing this around the web today, but sort of assumed it was a joke. Is this serious? Can't they all just be made to look like characters from The Sim
by bshimmin 12y ago
I've been seeing this around the web today, but sort of assumed it was a joke. Is this serious? Can't they all just be made to look like characters from The Simpsons and then, I don't know, maybe people can get on with some more important work?
- vilhelm_s 12y agoI guess the current set of glyphs from Apple/Microsoft/Twitter/Google shows why this is difficult: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/full-emoji-list.html http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/full-emoji-list.html Most of the "simple" things, like smiling/frowning/teardrop use yellow smileys. But there are also some emoji like boy/girl/man with turban/police officer which seem to call for less abstraction, and then the artist has to pick a skin tone.
- anigbrowl 12y agoI didn't realize there were 1430 of them. It reminds me of clipart shovelware when CD-ROMs were a new thing and people felt a need to fill up all that empty space with...stuff.
- cmelbye 12y agoI guess people's definitions of "important" can differ. Emoji are used in communication between many millions of people every day all across the world. Sounds pretty important to me!