In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall.

Outside the emoji world, a skull represents death, danger, or poison. And while this emoji can work for those, today it’s ...

The Unicode Consortium opened its beta review period for Unicode 16, which includes the all-new emojis coming with iOS 18 and Android 15.

According to Unicode, this is the emoji we use the most 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.

The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee reviews new submissions. Emoji, the silly little pictorials that fill digital communication, are a fun way to deliver a message for many people. But for those who ...

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.

Though Unicode can seem like an impenetrable and distant fortress from the outside, recent updates to the emoji catalog have proven that change certainly isn't out of the question.

A new draft proposal published Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium outlines a way of diversifying the mostly white people who populate your emoji keyboard. The system, presented by Google software ...

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.