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OpenMoji: Open-source emojis

356 points by nameequalsmain 5y ago

a-nikolaev 5y ago
Emojis are normally used inlined in text. So, I think, they should demo theirs the same size as they would be when inlined in text. Otherwise hard to tell tell the emoji quality. I'm also a bit concerned with the thick black outlines, they may look not as good at the small scale (may look too noisy or may overpower small color details).
- layer8 5y ago
  Yes, it doesn’t look like they would be suitable for low-DPI screens at regular text size.
- hbn 5y ago
  At least the lines aren't as horribly thick as Microsoft's current emoji set. Though I think they're gonna be redoing all their emojis with a 3D art style soon
nmstoker 5y ago
These are great. Certain interactions are really tough to represent pictographically but they did pretty well from what I saw. They've even had a go at the black and white versions of some flags! (but naturally they have a few they need to work on still). Flip the color switch on the link below to see it: https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode%2Fsubdivision-flag https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode%2Fsubdivi...
marcodiego 5y ago
From the site: "All emojis are free to use under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license" I'd like CC0 better for this case. If anyone is looking for a repository with many CC0 icons (among other licenses), I recommend SvgRepo: https://www.svgrepo.com/ https://www.svgrepo.com/
- carlinmack 5y ago
  The creator of the project suggests that the license is for edits of the emojis, rather than the projects which use the emoji. [1] As someone involved with the project, I'm not sure how this should be communicated so that this is clear [1] https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/issues/155 https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/issues/155
  - chronogram 5y ago
    The license states that you have to give attribution according to CC4 and that any edits will carry the same license, the comment in your issue page suggests open sourcing the files you use to make the edits so others can easily edit your changes as well. Personally I like the license you're using.
  - kamray23 5y ago
    Yeah but the creator of the project can suggest whatever they want if they don't understand the license they use. Going over CC-BY-SA for those used to software licenses only: If I make a work which uses CC-BY-SA material I have to provide attribution. If I modify the emoji to suit my own purposes, I need to release these new emoji under CC-BY-SA, and attribution to the originals must be provided, they may not be kept proprietary. Using it in a project is redistribution, modifying it is adaption.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  Hey, thanks for the SVGRepo link! There's a number of these types of sites, and I like to keep links to them all, for when I'm looking for inspiration or graphics.
carlinmack 5y ago
you can see them all a little easier at https://hfg-gmuend.github.io/openmoji/ https://hfg-gmuend.github.io/openmoji/
- Igelau 5y ago
  Thanks, the other link got hugged to death, or whatever we call the HN equivalent.
  - libele 5y ago
    the hacker news effect!
    - Igelau 5y ago
      Hackattack!
collegeburner 5y ago
No pregnant man emoji, 0/10 literally unusable On a more serious note, what are the author's plans to extend it? I saw that it's a project, so will it keep growing or is it pretty much done?
- totetsu 5y ago
  I see the sports icons but where are all the sex position ones?
  - pwdisswordfish0 5y ago
    Let’s contribute some!
- carlinmack 5y ago
  The plan is to stay up to date with Unicode emoji releases, and add extra ones (unicode [1] and original [2]) as they are designed [1] https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode [2] https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-openmoji https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-openmoji
user-the-name 5y ago
The fact that everyone's head is cut off is kind of creepy.
- EGreg 5y ago
  Links plz?
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
woliveirajr 5y ago
> OpenMoji is an open-source project of 50+ students and 2 professors of the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd (Design University) and external contributers. Congrats to everybody for taking time and giving us those emojis.
epilys 5y ago
The font files are very big (~10MB). They need some trimming before they are viable to use on websites.
wongarsu 5y ago
They even include a number of that aren't in Unicode (yet?), like this Trump emoji [1]. They are allocated in the Private Use Zone of Unicode, so there shouldn't be any collisions with future unicode additions. 1: https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=E183 https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=E183
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
matt_s 5y ago
Unicode has emojis[0] which are freely usable for nearly every device as far as I understand. What is the purpose here? How much overlap? [0] https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
- crazygringo 5y ago
  Aren't those all copyrighted? E.g. for the column "Appl" (sic) they're all copyrighted by Apple. You don't have rights to use them on your website or your Android app, for example. Just because they're on the Unicode website doesn't mean Unicode owns them. It's just a resource to be aware of how emoji can appear differently in different sets. Unless you can point out a column that is specifically open source.
  - deathanatos 5y ago
    > Unless you can point out a column that is specifically open source. The "Twtr" (Twitter) column, I believe, is Twitter's "twemoji"[1], which is CC-BY. But your general point about the link being for comparison purposes and not implying any particular license is also correct, too. [1]: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji https://github.com/twitter/twemoji
- dangerface 5y ago
  Emojis are part of unicode but the actual image representations of the unicode characters are created and owned by platforms like microsoft or apple. You can use the platform emojies on platforms that have and support them but you can't freely use them as in you can't redistribute them so you can't host or use them on your website without licensing issues. Its like a font like Akurrat you can use it if the platform provides it but if you are providing it you need a licence.
  - _tom_ 5y ago
    Aren’t emojis part of the fonts? I don’t know, I’d just assumed that. So they’d be owned by the font designer?
jokoon 5y ago
Sweet! I'm making an android game and UTF8 emojis are great for UI icons. I'm currently using the Google Noto one but it's certainly not usable in games. I'm waiting for Godot 4 to allow me to display android native emojis from the system font, but I'm not sure yet it will really work. I now want to try if I can use this font for my icons, as long as godot allows me to load a font and pick UTF8 character by their codepoint.
- edoceo 5y ago
  Why is noto a no-go for games? License?
  - AkshitGarg 5y ago
    Noto uses Apache-2.0 [1] which should be fine for most stuff. [1]: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE
    - jokoon 5y ago
      So does that mean I can publish a game using those icons, and earn money with micro transactions?
      - pabs3 5y ago
        Yes, under certain conditions. In particular pay attention to the requirements for redistribution under clause 4 and the lack of trademark license specified in clause 6.
rincewind 5y ago
The last time I evaluated these for use in my app, I found that the "consistent" and "minimalist" visual style makes it really difficult to recognise object/plant/food emoji from one another by shape or at a distance. Other emoji have clear shapes, but not enough internal detail to understand what they mean. this is especially problematic with a set of non-Android, non-Twitter, non-Apple emoji, where users haven't learned the shapes yet, but have to go by looks. It looks like the creators of this project wanted "function over form", or at least "form follows function", but in their pursuit of Bauhaus they accidentally ended up with Droodles.
- ziml77 5y ago
  Even the person ones aren't great. I actually thought that the baby was a hunchbacked old man. And the facepalm looks like someone covering up one eye to read an eye chart. I seriously wouldn't have gotten either of those without the caption telling me.
  - tomcam 5y ago
    Which was obviously preposterous. And then I actually looked at the baby… https://openmoji.org/library/#search=Baby&emoji=1F476 https://openmoji.org/library/#search=Baby&emoji=1F476 I stand humbly corrected
  - Aeolun 5y ago
    Huh, what is up with those facepalms? It’s like they wanted to show the person still has their eyes?
deleted 5y ago
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warning26 5y ago
I'm a fan of the artwork in some of the older versions of Noto Color Emoji, which is also open source and freely-licensed. But, it's good to have more options in the open emoji field -- if only Apple would freely license their emoji artwork.
davidjfelix 5y ago
FYI: google's are Apache licensed here: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji Twitter emoji (discord uses these also) are open source: https://twemoji.twitter.com/ https://twemoji.twitter.com/ Both of these are very consistent and good open source emoji. I think in the past a lot of these projects that were not backed by companies eventually devolved into a paid product that was no longer open source, but I'm hopeful that openmoji continues down the FOSS path.
- notRobot 5y ago
  Twemoji is amazing. I rooted my Android phone just so I could replace stock emoji with Twemoji.
  - onkoe 5y ago
    I'm really glad Discord used them. They're becoming more mainstream and easier to use in projects without people asking about the emoji
- pbronez 5y ago
  Looks like Google’s aren’t super easy to use outside of Chrome and Android: > NotoColorEmoji uses the CBDT/CBLC color font format, which is supported by Android and Chrome/Chromium OS. Windows supports it starting with Windows 10 Anniversary Update in Chrome and Edge. On macOS, only Chrome supports it, while on Linux it will support it with some fontconfig tweaking, see issue #36. Currently we do not build other color font formats.
- app4soft 5y ago
  JFTR, "Symbola" font[0] actually is not an opensource and just freeware for personal use, but it was "fully free for any use"[1] till February/March 2018[2]. BTW, Even in actual state "Symbola" is my fav font for emoji input on desktop (via Gucharmap[2]) and mobile (via UnicodePad[3]). [0] https://dn-works.com/ufas/ https://dn-works.com/ufas/ [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180129230141/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180129230141/http://users.teil... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180302032711/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d https://web.archive.org/web/20180302032711/http://users.teil... [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gucharmap https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gucharmap [4] https://github.com/Ryosuke839/UnicodePad https://github.com/Ryosuke839/UnicodePad
mcdonje 5y ago
Generally, I really very much like the style. I wonder about the skin tones and inclusion. I only see yellow supported. There's an argument to be made that just having 1 unrealistic color could be more inclusive than many skin tones, but the characteristics of the people look white in general. Like, even the curly haired person. They just look like white people. I'm white, but this doesn't seem very inclusive. Is there a skin tone variant I'm missing?
- carlinmack 5y ago
  if you click on individual emoji's you can see the skin tone variants for it. You can filter for only emojis with skin tone variants using the "All Emoji <Filter Icon>" button :)
  - mcdonje 5y ago
    I see it now. Thank you!
- drstewart 5y ago
  What is a non skin tone related "white characteristic" exactly?
dec0dedab0de 5y ago
for a while I've been thinking that it would be cool if emojis were directly in the font, so that they changed style to match the font being used.
Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
In case someone doesn't know emojipedia, here is the link: https://emojipedia.org/ https://emojipedia.org/ It covers all existing more or less complete emoji sets,, with licensing information (except for Apple Emojis. Nobody knows what is the license for Apple Emojis and how summer developers get away with using them).
- top_kekeroni_m8 5y ago
  What's a summer developer?
bkyan 5y ago
Could these be turned into an @font-face for use on websites?
- chrisrickard 5y ago
  Take a look at https://github.com/SebastianAigner/twemoji-amazing https://github.com/SebastianAigner/twemoji-amazing
aidenn0 5y ago
This hasn't caught up to the change in presentation of the pistol emoji: the version presented clearly depicts a revolver: https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=1F52B https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=1F52B
- PostOnce 5y ago
  Good. I don't need my pistol emoji replaced with a squirt gun any more than I need the word pistol in this sentence replaced by my keyboard, my browser, my OS, my font, or anyone else who isn't me who wants to dictate how I think and how I express my thoughts.
  - dTal 5y ago
    Unfortunately, it's not "your" pistol emoji; it's someone else's, that you're reading on your device. And likewise, the expression of your thoughts is already controlled by the emoji font installed by the other person. I also think it's a silly change that software vendors had absolutely no business making, but I am afraid that the battle is largely lost. All popular platforms now render the pistol as a squirt gun. Rendering it differently on your own computer achieves little. Very strange that OpenMoji seemingly calls it a "water pistol" while continuing to render a revolver, however. That's surely going to annoy everyone...
    - PostOnce 5y ago
      There's also a rifle codepoint that is apparently abandoned https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/thanks-to-apples-influence-youre-not-getting-a-rifle-emoji https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/thanks-to...
    - aidenn0 5y ago
      Right. Everyone would complain if the message "squirt gun fight" where rendered "pistols at dawn" or vice versa. There's going to be ambiguity in any language, and to make it worse, most adults are not native speakers of emoji.
TheRealNGenius 5y ago
They don't particularly suit my tastes. Perhaps amateurish compared to other notable open source emojis.

Emojis are normally used inlined in text. So, I think, they should demo theirs the same size as they would be when inlined in text. Otherwise hard to tell tell the emoji quality. I'm also a bit concerned with the thick black outlines, they may look not as good at the small scale (may look too noisy or may overpower small color details).

layer8 5y ago
Yes, it doesn’t look like they would be suitable for low-DPI screens at regular text size.
hbn 5y ago
At least the lines aren't as horribly thick as Microsoft's current emoji set. Though I think they're gonna be redoing all their emojis with a 3D art style soon

nmstoker 5y ago

These are great. Certain interactions are really tough to represent pictographically but they did pretty well from what I saw. They've even had a go at the black and white versions of some flags! (but naturally they have a few they need to work on still). Flip the color switch on the link below to see it: https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode%2Fsubdivision-flag https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode%2Fsubdivi...

marcodiego 5y ago

From the site: "All emojis are free to use under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license" I'd like CC0 better for this case. If anyone is looking for a repository with many CC0 icons (among other licenses), I recommend SvgRepo: https://www.svgrepo.com/ https://www.svgrepo.com/

carlinmack 5y ago
The creator of the project suggests that the license is for edits of the emojis, rather than the projects which use the emoji. [1] As someone involved with the project, I'm not sure how this should be communicated so that this is clear [1] https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/issues/155 https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/issues/155
- chronogram 5y ago
  The license states that you have to give attribution according to CC4 and that any edits will carry the same license, the comment in your issue page suggests open sourcing the files you use to make the edits so others can easily edit your changes as well. Personally I like the license you're using.
- kamray23 5y ago
  Yeah but the creator of the project can suggest whatever they want if they don't understand the license they use. Going over CC-BY-SA for those used to software licenses only: If I make a work which uses CC-BY-SA material I have to provide attribution. If I modify the emoji to suit my own purposes, I need to release these new emoji under CC-BY-SA, and attribution to the originals must be provided, they may not be kept proprietary. Using it in a project is redistribution, modifying it is adaption.
ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
Hey, thanks for the SVGRepo link! There's a number of these types of sites, and I like to keep links to them all, for when I'm looking for inspiration or graphics.

carlinmack 5y ago

you can see them all a little easier at https://hfg-gmuend.github.io/openmoji/ https://hfg-gmuend.github.io/openmoji/

Igelau 5y ago
Thanks, the other link got hugged to death, or whatever we call the HN equivalent.
- libele 5y ago
  the hacker news effect!
  - Igelau 5y ago
    Hackattack!

collegeburner 5y ago

No pregnant man emoji, 0/10 literally unusable On a more serious note, what are the author's plans to extend it? I saw that it's a project, so will it keep growing or is it pretty much done?

totetsu 5y ago
I see the sports icons but where are all the sex position ones?
- pwdisswordfish0 5y ago
  Let’s contribute some!
carlinmack 5y ago
The plan is to stay up to date with Unicode emoji releases, and add extra ones (unicode [1] and original [2]) as they are designed [1] https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-unicode [2] https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-openmoji https://openmoji.org/library/#group=extras-openmoji

user-the-name 5y ago

The fact that everyone's head is cut off is kind of creepy.

EGreg 5y ago
Links plz?
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]

woliveirajr 5y ago

> OpenMoji is an open-source project of 50+ students and 2 professors of the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd (Design University) and external contributers. Congrats to everybody for taking time and giving us those emojis.

epilys 5y ago

The font files are very big (~10MB). They need some trimming before they are viable to use on websites.

wongarsu 5y ago

They even include a number of that aren't in Unicode (yet?), like this Trump emoji [1]. They are allocated in the Private Use Zone of Unicode, so there shouldn't be any collisions with future unicode additions. 1: https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=E183 https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=E183

deleted 5y ago
[deleted]

matt_s 5y ago

Unicode has emojis[0] which are freely usable for nearly every device as far as I understand. What is the purpose here? How much overlap? [0] https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

crazygringo 5y ago
Aren't those all copyrighted? E.g. for the column "Appl" (sic) they're all copyrighted by Apple. You don't have rights to use them on your website or your Android app, for example. Just because they're on the Unicode website doesn't mean Unicode owns them. It's just a resource to be aware of how emoji can appear differently in different sets. Unless you can point out a column that is specifically open source.
- deathanatos 5y ago
  > Unless you can point out a column that is specifically open source. The "Twtr" (Twitter) column, I believe, is Twitter's "twemoji"[1], which is CC-BY. But your general point about the link being for comparison purposes and not implying any particular license is also correct, too. [1]: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji https://github.com/twitter/twemoji
dangerface 5y ago
Emojis are part of unicode but the actual image representations of the unicode characters are created and owned by platforms like microsoft or apple. You can use the platform emojies on platforms that have and support them but you can't freely use them as in you can't redistribute them so you can't host or use them on your website without licensing issues. Its like a font like Akurrat you can use it if the platform provides it but if you are providing it you need a licence.
- _tom_ 5y ago
  Aren’t emojis part of the fonts? I don’t know, I’d just assumed that. So they’d be owned by the font designer?

jokoon 5y ago

Sweet! I'm making an android game and UTF8 emojis are great for UI icons. I'm currently using the Google Noto one but it's certainly not usable in games. I'm waiting for Godot 4 to allow me to display android native emojis from the system font, but I'm not sure yet it will really work. I now want to try if I can use this font for my icons, as long as godot allows me to load a font and pick UTF8 character by their codepoint.

edoceo 5y ago
Why is noto a no-go for games? License?
- AkshitGarg 5y ago
  Noto uses Apache-2.0 [1] which should be fine for most stuff. [1]: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE
  - jokoon 5y ago
    So does that mean I can publish a game using those icons, and earn money with micro transactions?
    - pabs3 5y ago
      Yes, under certain conditions. In particular pay attention to the requirements for redistribution under clause 4 and the lack of trademark license specified in clause 6.

rincewind 5y ago

The last time I evaluated these for use in my app, I found that the "consistent" and "minimalist" visual style makes it really difficult to recognise object/plant/food emoji from one another by shape or at a distance. Other emoji have clear shapes, but not enough internal detail to understand what they mean. this is especially problematic with a set of non-Android, non-Twitter, non-Apple emoji, where users haven't learned the shapes yet, but have to go by looks. It looks like the creators of this project wanted "function over form", or at least "form follows function", but in their pursuit of Bauhaus they accidentally ended up with Droodles.

ziml77 5y ago
Even the person ones aren't great. I actually thought that the baby was a hunchbacked old man. And the facepalm looks like someone covering up one eye to read an eye chart. I seriously wouldn't have gotten either of those without the caption telling me.
- tomcam 5y ago
  Which was obviously preposterous. And then I actually looked at the baby… https://openmoji.org/library/#search=Baby&emoji=1F476 https://openmoji.org/library/#search=Baby&emoji=1F476 I stand humbly corrected
- Aeolun 5y ago
  Huh, what is up with those facepalms? It’s like they wanted to show the person still has their eyes?

deleted 5y ago

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warning26 5y ago

I'm a fan of the artwork in some of the older versions of Noto Color Emoji, which is also open source and freely-licensed. But, it's good to have more options in the open emoji field -- if only Apple would freely license their emoji artwork.

davidjfelix 5y ago

FYI: google's are Apache licensed here: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji Twitter emoji (discord uses these also) are open source: https://twemoji.twitter.com/ https://twemoji.twitter.com/ Both of these are very consistent and good open source emoji. I think in the past a lot of these projects that were not backed by companies eventually devolved into a paid product that was no longer open source, but I'm hopeful that openmoji continues down the FOSS path.

notRobot 5y ago
Twemoji is amazing. I rooted my Android phone just so I could replace stock emoji with Twemoji.
- onkoe 5y ago
  I'm really glad Discord used them. They're becoming more mainstream and easier to use in projects without people asking about the emoji
pbronez 5y ago
Looks like Google’s aren’t super easy to use outside of Chrome and Android: > NotoColorEmoji uses the CBDT/CBLC color font format, which is supported by Android and Chrome/Chromium OS. Windows supports it starting with Windows 10 Anniversary Update in Chrome and Edge. On macOS, only Chrome supports it, while on Linux it will support it with some fontconfig tweaking, see issue #36. Currently we do not build other color font formats.
app4soft 5y ago
JFTR, "Symbola" font[0] actually is not an opensource and just freeware for personal use, but it was "fully free for any use"[1] till February/March 2018[2]. BTW, Even in actual state "Symbola" is my fav font for emoji input on desktop (via Gucharmap[2]) and mobile (via UnicodePad[3]). [0] https://dn-works.com/ufas/ https://dn-works.com/ufas/ [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180129230141/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180129230141/http://users.teil... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180302032711/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d https://web.archive.org/web/20180302032711/http://users.teil... [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gucharmap https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gucharmap [4] https://github.com/Ryosuke839/UnicodePad https://github.com/Ryosuke839/UnicodePad

mcdonje 5y ago

Generally, I really very much like the style. I wonder about the skin tones and inclusion. I only see yellow supported. There's an argument to be made that just having 1 unrealistic color could be more inclusive than many skin tones, but the characteristics of the people look white in general. Like, even the curly haired person. They just look like white people. I'm white, but this doesn't seem very inclusive. Is there a skin tone variant I'm missing?

carlinmack 5y ago
if you click on individual emoji's you can see the skin tone variants for it. You can filter for only emojis with skin tone variants using the "All Emoji <Filter Icon>" button :)
- mcdonje 5y ago
  I see it now. Thank you!
drstewart 5y ago
What is a non skin tone related "white characteristic" exactly?

dec0dedab0de 5y ago

for a while I've been thinking that it would be cool if emojis were directly in the font, so that they changed style to match the font being used.

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

In case someone doesn't know emojipedia, here is the link: https://emojipedia.org/ https://emojipedia.org/ It covers all existing more or less complete emoji sets,, with licensing information (except for Apple Emojis. Nobody knows what is the license for Apple Emojis and how summer developers get away with using them).

top_kekeroni_m8 5y ago
What's a summer developer?

bkyan 5y ago

Could these be turned into an @font-face for use on websites?

chrisrickard 5y ago
Take a look at https://github.com/SebastianAigner/twemoji-amazing https://github.com/SebastianAigner/twemoji-amazing

aidenn0 5y ago

This hasn't caught up to the change in presentation of the pistol emoji: the version presented clearly depicts a revolver: https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=1F52B https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=1F52B

PostOnce 5y ago
Good. I don't need my pistol emoji replaced with a squirt gun any more than I need the word pistol in this sentence replaced by my keyboard, my browser, my OS, my font, or anyone else who isn't me who wants to dictate how I think and how I express my thoughts.
- dTal 5y ago
  Unfortunately, it's not "your" pistol emoji; it's someone else's, that you're reading on your device. And likewise, the expression of your thoughts is already controlled by the emoji font installed by the other person. I also think it's a silly change that software vendors had absolutely no business making, but I am afraid that the battle is largely lost. All popular platforms now render the pistol as a squirt gun. Rendering it differently on your own computer achieves little. Very strange that OpenMoji seemingly calls it a "water pistol" while continuing to render a revolver, however. That's surely going to annoy everyone...
  - PostOnce 5y ago
    There's also a rifle codepoint that is apparently abandoned https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/thanks-to-apples-influence-youre-not-getting-a-rifle-emoji https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/thanks-to...
  - aidenn0 5y ago
    Right. Everyone would complain if the message "squirt gun fight" where rendered "pistols at dawn" or vice versa. There's going to be ambiguity in any language, and to make it worse, most adults are not native speakers of emoji.

TheRealNGenius 5y ago

They don't particularly suit my tastes. Perhaps amateurish compared to other notable open source emojis.