Emoji Wrap burrito Issue 2 UTC 147 emoji approvals, convergance of emoji design, and copyright what copyright? heading Emoji Wrap burrito link View on the web link Archives heading ISSUE 2 30th May 2016 graphic speech balloon The Wrap heading speech balloon THE WRAP Earlier this month UTC number 147 was held at Adobe HQ in downtown San Jose, paving the way for link Unicode 9 to be released in June. Arguably the biggest emoji news was Google's Expanding Emoji Professions proposal, though progress link continues on a number of other fronts. Expect to see vendors release support for new emojis quicker this year than in the past, as the schedule has become more consistent, and demand and attention has only continued to increase. link Google and link Microsoft went as far as releasing new emojis in developer previews, while Unicode 9 was still in beta, with public rollouts planned for the coming months. Apple's OS release cycle begins in earnest at WWDC in June when the first developer builds of i OS 10 are expected. Jeremy Burge table with 41 rows and 1 columns row 1 column 1 row 2 heading newspaper NEWS row 3 row 4 heading link woman Google proposes new set of female emojis to promote equality The biggest emoji news of the month went to this proposal from Google advocating a more inclusive range of professional emojis for women. link theguardian dot com row 5 row 6 separator row 7 heading link classical building Can emojis be protected by copyright? The International Trademark Association Conference looked at this, but the issue has never been litigated. Lots of different aspects between character names, reference images, and vendor artwork, which are all separate matters. link worldipreview dot com row 8 row 9 separator row 10 heading link pen Making faces (and other emoji) Colin M. Ford of Hoefler and Co looks at creating an emoji font, and more specifically what goes into a good emoji design. link medium dot com row 11 row 12 separator row 13 heading link raised fist light skin tone Is it okay to use white emojis? 18 months after their introduction, we still can't figure out the correct cultural use of modified emojis. What is the difference in meaning between a thumbs up with white skin tone compared to a dark skin tone? link theatlantic dot com row 14 row 15 separator row 16 heading link person running Racemoji (followup to Is it okay to use white emojis? ) A follow up to Mc Gill's article in The Atlantic on race and emoji. Can't say I agree on the correct' default being bright blue or green skin tone, but an interesting read nonetheless. link elischiff dot com row 17 row 18 separator row 19 heading link globe with meridians The rising use of emoji in diplomacy The use of emoji in international diplomacy is in some ways a natural fit. It has flags, and gestures that cross geographical borders. Highlighted is Australian Foreign Minister link Julie Bishop who is a heavy emoji user, and shares her birthday with link World Emoji Day dot link twiplomacy dot com row 20 row 21 separator row 22 heading link artist palette Before Emoji, There Was The Print Shop A nostalgic look back at The Print Shop from 1984, and many of the clip art images which now correspond to popular emojis. link theatlantic dot com row 23 row 24 separator row 25 heading link robot face Botmoji: emoji meanings on Twitter Emojipedia has developed an API which can be queried by tweeting any emoji to link at Botmoji dot Running 24 slash 7 for your convenience. link emojipedia dot org row 26 row 27 separator row 28 heading link smiling cat face with heart-eyes The people behind We Chat's cute stickers Sticker marketplaces are huge in Asia, with We Chat and LINE leading a crowded market. This is an interesting read about the people designing stickers at We Chat. link ecns dot cn row 29 row 30 separator row 31 heading link milky way Star Wars: As told by emoji ICYMI, this is the latest in the as told by emoji series from Disney. Last year saw similar treatments for link Frozen and link Alladin dot link youtube dot com row 32 row 33 separator row 34 heading link eight-spoked asterisk ️ The convergence of emoji In a topic I had been meaning to cover in more detail for a while, Sebastiaan de With looks back at how major platforms have come closer together in their emoji appearance over time. link medium dot com row 35 row 36 separator row 37 heading link lemon Lemon emoji usage increased thanks to Beyoncé Emojipedia saw a link huge increase in use of the bee emoji and lemon emoji with the release of Beyonce's Lemonade video last month. This mirrors an increase later reported by Twitter. link wired dot com row 38 row 39 separator row 40 heading link mobile phone with arrow Emojinn app for i OS One of the better emoji keyboard apps I have used on i OS. Good summary from John Voorhees on this app (and keyboard) for quick emoji search. link macstories dot net row 41 out of table heading input symbols UNICODE heading link newspaper Wrapup of number UTC 147 Emoji News Three new proposals accepted as emoji candidates. Not included in this overview are details of the proposal to allow a new provisional emoji' status, which was not passed. More to come on this. link emojipedia dot org separator heading link bottle with popping cork Celebrating 25 Years of Unicode The Unicode Consortium turned 25 this year. Started in 1991, otherwise known as the year 19 B dot E. (Before Emoji). link Unicode 6.0 was the first release to include emoji support in 2010. link twitter dot com separator heading link hot beverage ️ Proposal: Coded Hashes of Arbitrary Images (CHAI) Proposal attempting to advance the future of emoji, and how it can move beyond the existing codepoint based implementation. Some ideas worth exploring in there, though it's early days in this area. link unicode dot org separator heading link hand with fingers splayed UTS number 52 suspended while alternatives are assessed Work on Unicode Emoji Mechanisms, proposed in link February 2016 , has been suspended. Priority remains on gender, with ZWJ sequences being the alternative link option under investigation. link unicode dot org heading hugging face LASTLY Thanks to everyone who spread the word since Emoji Wrap number 1. 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