Today is World emoji day, a “party” that apparently is one thing. To celebrate, both Google and Apple have shared some new emoji for Android 11 and iOS this year.
For iOS, yesterday Apple previewed Emojipedia 13 new emoji, including a dodo, a matryoshka doll, piñata, tamale, anatomical heart, beaver, boomerang, lungs, ninja, the transgender symbol, boba tea, a coin that for some reason says “The Crazy Ones” on it , and the long-awaited “pinched fingers”. (However, we all know that it is the “Italian hand”, as expertly demonstrated in this Photo of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.) All of these were approved by the Unicode Consortium in January as part of the Emoji Set 13.0, and will probably debut in the second half of this year, probably with iOS 14.
Not to be outdone, Google also gave an overview of 117 new emoji designs for Android 11. According to 9to5 GoogleThis set will include 62 new characters and 55 skin tones and gender variations. Designs will also look better with Android’s dark mode. Like the new iOS emoji, the set includes a ninja, loggerhead tea, an anatomical heart, lungs, piñata, and tamale. You can take a look at the complete set here.
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A Emojipedia the blog also lists some of the classic designs that return to Android 11. This includes the good frog emoji; Other animal friends, such as the pig face and hatching chick, are getting revamped designs that are similar to their 2013 incarnations. Some of the animals are getting a more “realistic” design, albeit a friendlier appearance, 9to5 Google says it was developed with the Victoria Bug Zoo and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. For some reason, Google is also trying to brainwash us into thinking that scorpions aren’t terrifying, by adding a grinning cat’s mouth to their scorpion emoji. This is a lie. Scorpions are many things, but cute assassin arachnids are a bridge too far.
This is great, but there is only one emoji out of all of these that really matters to me. And that is the glorious return of the turtle. You know what turtle I’m talking about. The perfect turtle friend of several of us promised to protect with our lives that Google murdered with Android 8. The return was reported for the first time A few weeks ago, but you may not have gotten it due to the garbage container fire news cycle. So this is another PSA that is the perfect turtle confirmed like coming back design is final. After Twitter hacks, an endless stream of bleak coronavirus Newsand the usual technology fuckery–duckery, the beautiful smiling face of this cartoon turtle is the balm that my withered and dried-out soul needed this morning.
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