Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

Butterflies, beavers, panda bears — open your phone and you ... mismatch between the emoji options on our phones and the ...

The proposed skin tone support for these emoji would include single skin tones for both people in the emoji design, as well as multiple skin tone support -- each person is a different skin tone.

In the UK, 76% of the population own a smart phone and of that number, over 80% regularly use emoji. Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for ...

Many of this year's new emoji are focused on inclusivity, with symbols for deaf and blind people, prosthetic limbs, and wheelchairs. A bunch of old emoji have also been updated to have gender ...

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face :) to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face :( to convey ...