In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to ...

We last got new emoji in 2023's Unicode 15.1 update, though all of these designs were technically modifications of existing emoji rather than new characters—many emoji, most notably for skin and ...

Emoji were first created for mobile users in Japan in 1999, according to the website. "The Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic," said Unicode in its draft ...

Unicode Version 8.0 is adding 5 symbol modifier characters that provide for a range of skin tones for human emoji. These characters are based on the six tones of the Fitzpatrick scale, a ...

Unicode 13 characters are expected to be adopted by Apple starting this fall, perhaps in an update to iOS 14. It typically takes Apple several months to design new artwork for emoji characters ...

The Unicode Consortium introduced 250 new emoji in June, but it received criticism at the time for not using that opportunity to address the character set's lack of diversity.

The Unicode Consortium on Monday announced the latest Unicode Standard version 7.0 release includes 2,834 new characters and — more importantly to avid texters — more than 250 pictographs ...

Apple has shown off more emoji characters coming to iOS in the future 11.1 update. The characters are part of Unicode 10, which added 56 new emoji; Apple is revealing over 30 of its new designs ...

It could take some time for them to incorporate all the changes: Unicode 8.0 was released in June 2015, but the taco emoji wasn’t available to Apple users until October.

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols. The emojis are a part of the Unicode 7.0 software update from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

The Unicode Consortium announced the launch of Unicode 9.0 on June 21st, updated with six new scripts of different languages, 19 symbols for the new 4K TV standards, and a host of new emoji ...