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 ...

Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for. Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

It’s official: The Unicode Consortium recently confirmed 72 new emoji for the Unicode 9 set, which is scheduled to drop later in June of 2016. If you’re wondering how to get the Unicode 9 emoji, ...

The Unicode Consortium today has officially announced Unicode 10, which includes a host of new emojis for users to take advantage of. The release consists of 56 new emoji characters, a set of Typicon ...

The next emoji update will be two characters short of what was originally planned -- the result of a "late stage" change, according to the organization overseeing the symbols. Now, a new report ...

A lobster emoji is coming and Maine's junior senator is boiling over with joy. "Great news for Maine — we're getting a lobster emoji!!!" Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said on Twitter Wednesday after the ...

The Unicode Consortium has released version 12.0 of its Unicode Standard. The group is behind emojis and generally making sure text typed on one device can be displayed on another device. The release ...

Emojipedia founder and Chief Emoji Officer Jeremy Burge has announced that the Unicode Consortium has approved 69 emoji as part of the Emoji 5.0 update for 2017. The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit ...

Florie Hutchinson's crusade against emoji fashion started last year, on the heels of the presidential election and the 2017 Women's March. She'd been thinking about feminism, her three young daughters ...