An expanded set of 69 emojis is rolling out this summer and it reflects changing politics (the flag of Scotland), expands diversity (a person in a headscarf), and honors our new favorite animal: the ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then there are approximately zero words currently represented in the emoji library to discuss women in the working world — Google and the Unicode Emoji ...

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday, June 20, released version 10 of the Unicode Standard, adding emoji counterparts of a T-Rex and Stephen Colbert's signature quizzical look, which sees one eyebrow ...

Version 17.0 of Unicode, the character encoding standard, was released on September 9, 2025. It adds 4,803 new characters, including four new characters and several emojis, bringing the total number ...

Jennifer Daniel leads the Unicode Consortium’s emoji subcommittee. She tells us how emojis are chosen and discusses their importance in the world of language. Language has been evolving for as long as ...

People all over the world want to have emoji that reflect more human diversity, especially for skin tone. The Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic, yet following ...

While the new emojis of Unicode 10 have yet to launch, Unicode President Mark Davis this week revealed a collection of new emojis have been added as "draft candidates" for potential release in Unicode ...

With the end of the year quickly approaching, the Unicode Consortium is out with a fun study today showing off the emojis that were used most throughout 2021. While the smiley/emotion category was the ...

There’s never been a better time to be an emoji user — and it’s about to get even better. Two-hundred and thirty new emojis are set to roll out to users in 2019, which will make it not only easier to ...

Get ready to take chats with your BFFs to the next level with all-new emojis. Unicode’s new iPhone and Android emoji drafts for 2021 were revealed on July 15, and there are some new diverse choices ...

An expected 2015 update to Unicode's system will provide more skin tone options for human emojis. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying ...