A Middle Finger, but Still No Emoji People of Color
These are, to my mind, the 10 most exciting ones.
Before I begin, an important caveat: We don’t know exactly what they look like yet. Just as an “a” in Helvetica looks different from an “a” in Times New Roman, different emoji fonts change the appearance of emoji. The unicode symbol called 1F383—which looks like a smiling jack o’lantern—looks different on the Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android devices.
However, the Unicode Consortium does specify suggest what these new emoji might look like with example images called reference glyphs. The images supplied below are the consortium’s.
1. The Middle Finger.
For years, we have gotten by on the index finger. No longer will we have to gesticulate at the sky. At last, the consortium has let us flip the actual bird.
2. The Vulcan salute.
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