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An interview with an Apple emoji designer (shadycharacters.co.uk)
9dev 49 minutes 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 47 minutes ago [-]
long eggplant and a smaller Pinching Hand emoji were probably the first to go
33 minutes ago [-]
ollien 1 hours ago [-]
If 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">
holistio 2 hours ago [-]
There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.
hbn 19 minutes ago [-]
I love the pregnant man emoji, I use it all the time after a big meal
wpm 2 hours ago [-]
Be the petty, small change you wish to see in the world: https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode
holistio 1 hours ago [-]
I will be. Thanks.

By the way, Walnut Creek is less than 100 miles from Cupertino.

I love walnuts.

Jtarii 1 hours ago [-]
Gotta love websites that hijack basic browser functions, in this case forcing smooth scroll on.
embedding-shape 49 minutes ago [-]
Seems 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.
j1000 2 hours ago [-]
Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?
hbn 20 minutes ago [-]
I was looking for a pirate emoji like 5 minutes ago. I'm sure it's not the first time but I'm super surprised that still isn't in there. Seems so obvious.
dagmx 2 hours ago [-]
Simply because nobody has successfully pitched the Unicode group to add one.

Anyone can pitch new emoji, they just have to go through the fairly easy but strict formal process.

blanched 2 hours ago [-]
Alex Schmidt, a humor writer (formerly of Cracked and others) did this process for the bison emoji. I enjoyed his “miniseries” about it: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/
basch 1 hours ago [-]
does the reverse notebooklm exist yet that turns podcasts into longform journalism?
blanched 7 minutes ago [-]
Not that I know of. And I generally prefer written pieces to podcasts :).

The show notes for episode 2 will get you pretty far: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/show-notes

wvbdmp 2 hours ago [-]
What’s next, a cowboy emoji? A ninja emoji? But seriously, as much as I like emojis, I kind of feel like they should stick to emotions. Maybe other intangible things. They’re hard to convey verbally (and succinctly), simple concrete nouns are good for a bit of fun and for UI icons, but really not very useful if we’re being honest. Unless you’re texting with a lizard, or my lazy elementary-school niece who shouldn’t really have a phone anyway…
holistio 1 hours ago [-]
Or you're texting with people whose native language uses a logographic system.
carrozo 26 minutes ago [-]
still no Guillotine Emoji either, although not for a lack of trying.

https://www.carrozo.com/guillotine-emoji

55 minutes ago [-]
aforty 2 hours ago [-]
So 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.
amelius 4 hours ago [-]
In case anyone is actually interested in the emoji:

https://emojipedia.org/apple

Aissen 2 hours ago [-]
More specifically, it was this set: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2

Interesting tidbit:

> Emoji support required iPhone OS 2.2 and a SoftBank SIM card.

TazeTSchnitzel 5 minutes ago [-]
These are very nostalgic. The way Apple's emoji look has subtly changed since then.
amelius 2 hours ago [-]
To be honest, the images look like things I've seen a hundred times over in comic books and not much more original than GenAI.
reaperducer 2 hours ago [-]
not much more original than GenAI.

What exactly do you think the "GenAI" trained on?

throawayonthe 2 hours ago [-]
is that not sorta the point? i don't get the genai reference
Tepix 3 hours ago [-]
Are the emojis on Apple (macOS, iOS etc) vector graphics these days?
LoganDark 2 hours ago [-]
They are not. They are perhaps higher resolution than they once were, but still raster:

https://logandark.net/files/328S6690-9Q368809-16843Q53-RR2SN...

NoSalt 3 hours ago [-]
Why does that site feel like I am reading typed text on paper?
CharlesW 1 hours ago [-]
It's a combination of the layout, the typeface (https://monokrom.no/fonts/satyr), and the thoughtful typography.
alnwlsn 10 minutes ago [-]
Serif font?
reaperducer 2 hours ago [-]
Did you print it out?
NoSalt 2 hours ago [-]
LOL
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