“The emoji list for 2018 has been published which adds 157 new emojis to the standard,” Jeremy Burge writes for Emojipedia. “This brings the total number of approved emojis to 2,823.”
“Emoji 11.0 today reached its final form and includes emojis for redheads, curly hair, superheroes, softball, infinity, kangaroo and more,” Burge writes. “Users can expect to see these new emojis on their phones in the second half of 2018.”
“Announced today by the Unicode Consortium, Emoji 11.0 marks the first time new components are available for hair color. Options are provided for red hair, curly hair, white hair, and baldness and these are available for use in sequences for men and women of any skin tone,” Burge writes. “Created in an Apple-like style, our sample images aim to capture how these emojis might look when arriving later in the year.”
Well Apple is one of the ones who started the Unicode and supported it. They have been devoloping this stuff with the Xerox since day 1. I took long time before Microsoft and Google joint also.
“The origins of Unicode date to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.”
Yes, but they didn’t create Emoji, they’re just forced to support them just like they’re forced to support the letter “q” even though, god KNOWS, ain’t no need for the letter “q”. And… all those jabberwocky hash scratch character languages… which is where Emoji came from. So, maybe the problem was supporting Japanese character sets?
Exactly how is this Apple news? This is Unicode Consortium announcing the new set of icons for digital platforms. Theoretically, we don’t even know if Apple will bother putting these in until they release the next version of iOS (by which time 2018 will be more than half way over).
“Skeuomorphism is the design concept of making items represented resemble their real-world counterparts.”
And these NEW emojis are wonderful visual Skeuomorphism.
All the animated emojis from Apple that debuted with iPhoneX are wonderful visual Skeuomorphism.
All the visually flat icons that debuted with iOS7 and caused a firestorm by abandoning Skeuomorphism, sadly, all these visual abstractions years later still insult our eyes …
The word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, “picture”) + moji (文字, “character”). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.
Hmmm, I’m thinking we just submit a change so that we can change the contents of the salt shaker from white to black… and then all the other colors, so we could have cinnamon, cocoa powder, garlic… ahhhh…
So glad that we have new emojis. Now I don’t need a new MacPro
This is not an Apple announcement.
My bad… LOL
It’s your job to complain about Apple even when it has nothing to do with Apple?
So Apple is NOT getting these emojis?
I don’t know how it works since not high on my priority list — but a new MacPro is numero uno! …
Maintaining support of the Unicode standards is preeeeeetty high on the software priority list.
As there’s likely only 50 people left alive SERIOUSLY considering buying any kind of PRO device from Apple, that’s probably a low priority for them.
It’s so good to know that Apple is ever vigilant about what is important.
How is this related to Apple??? It’s Unicode Consortium’s announement.
Well Apple is one of the ones who started the Unicode and supported it. They have been devoloping this stuff with the Xerox since day 1. I took long time before Microsoft and Google joint also.
“The origins of Unicode date to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.”
Yes, but they didn’t create Emoji, they’re just forced to support them just like they’re forced to support the letter “q” even though, god KNOWS, ain’t no need for the letter “q”. And… all those jabberwocky hash scratch character languages… which is where Emoji came from. So, maybe the problem was supporting Japanese character sets?
Exactly how is this Apple news? This is Unicode Consortium announcing the new set of icons for digital platforms. Theoretically, we don’t even know if Apple will bother putting these in until they release the next version of iOS (by which time 2018 will be more than half way over).
Give it a rest, already …
It was just a few days ago I wished there was an emoji for “basket” and “Thread”. Now, life is complete.
Dam it, they missed the “Woman Superhero: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Red Haired, Curly Haired, Long Haired, Pleading Face”.
It’s amazing how prior generations managed to express themselves with just 26 letters.
“Skeuomorphism is the design concept of making items represented resemble their real-world counterparts.”
And these NEW emojis are wonderful visual Skeuomorphism.
All the animated emojis from Apple that debuted with iPhoneX are wonderful visual Skeuomorphism.
All the visually flat icons that debuted with iOS7 and caused a firestorm by abandoning Skeuomorphism, sadly, all these visual abstractions years later still insult our eyes …
These are great!
Nice job with their selection, these will be used a lot, especially the new faces.
Soon, texting will be like working at McDonald’s- pictures instead of having to spell….
PC run amok….
We need a different term for these symbols, since so many now do not actually represent emotions, as the term “emoji” implies.
I propose: cyberglyphs.
The word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, “picture”) + moji (文字, “character”). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.
I wanted another motorcycle and got a skateboard. Hmmm.
A salt emoji but no pepper? How am I supposed to get the pepper passed to me now if it’s on the other side of the table?
Hmmm, I’m thinking we just submit a change so that we can change the contents of the salt shaker from white to black… and then all the other colors, so we could have cinnamon, cocoa powder, garlic… ahhhh…