The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

These new emojis have long-standing symbolic meanings, are visually distinctive, and contain multitudes of expression.” ...

People have made a serious case for the upcoming Apple Core emoji, claiming it’s going to be the new Wilting Rose. The latter ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to ...

Tech News Unicode’s New Emoji Finalists, Ranked The list of emojis slated for potential release is out. Here's your guide to which candidates deserve to live or die.

Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text. These are characters which can be built from multiple glyphs, but they also have a pre ...

Unicode’s approval process considers things like frequency of use, multiple uses or meanings, ability to be used in sequence with other emojis, and whether or not it’s “breaking new ground.” ...

Unicode, a consortium of giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google, oversees standard, “official” emojis. But how they are drawn and when they roll out over the next 12 months are company decisions.

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday showed off 236 draft candidates for Emoji 12.0, which should make its way onto Apple platforms sometime in 2019 with iOS 13 and macOS 10.15.