OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis
xd1936 2 hours ago [-]
Does anyone know _where_ these supposed 4,000 OBJ files are open-sourced? They don't seem to be in the Noto Emoji GitHub repo, nor linked anywhere in the article.
xfalcox 56 minutes ago [-]
I'm wondering the same! How that article has no links is beyond me.
doublepg23 27 minutes ago [-]
The Google "blob" emoji was the peak of emoji design.
smlacy 31 minutes ago [-]
Can we please just make emoji bigger onscreen? They're not even em-height most of the time. Most interfaces don't scale the emojis when scaling the text.
There's so much artistry and time & effort put into these, and they end up feeling l ike a yellow smudge behind a crack on a dim screen in my life.
IAmBroom 30 minutes ago [-]
It's also crap...
> The way we use emoji has changed. In the early days, we were literal: You sent a nail polish emoji () because you were, in fact, getting your nails polished.
The early days of emojis used unpaired parentheses, colons, and semicolons. It's like claiming int the early days of Apple the company released macOS 10.
thunderfork 24 minutes ago [-]
I believe you're referring to emotions, which are a separate and distinct concept/term
CharlesW 16 minutes ago [-]
I believe the point is that emoticons/emoji/kaomoji were never literal, and that it's surprising that anyone whose job is communications-related would say this.
andrepd 53 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, an AI generated blogpost telling me about human emotion...
nibbleyou 34 minutes ago [-]
I didn't find it to be AI-generated.
Rebelgecko 19 minutes ago [-]
(crying emoji) is a masterclass in modern vocabulary... seemed a bit suspect to me. Maybe people are just sadder
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There's so much artistry and time & effort put into these, and they end up feeling l ike a yellow smudge behind a crack on a dim screen in my life.
> The way we use emoji has changed. In the early days, we were literal: You sent a nail polish emoji () because you were, in fact, getting your nails polished.
The early days of emojis used unpaired parentheses, colons, and semicolons. It's like claiming int the early days of Apple the company released macOS 10.