10 comments

  • fnoef19 minutes ago
    OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis
    • bigyabai16 minutes ago
      Emojis are more of a unicode standard, they can be re-implemented with various themes to suit modern design trends. There's nothing wrong with redesigning your emojis to fit with the rest of your OS like you would with a system typeface.
      • Analemma_2 minutes ago
        Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Approximately nobody thought Google’s current emoji family needed a total overhaul, stop breaking our pattern recognition for no reason other than your designers are bored and don’t have enough real work to do.
  • summermusic2 minutes ago
    The best emoji for the way we communicate today would be to revert the water pistol back to a real gun.
  • tamimio0 minutes ago
    Wasn’t google the one who made flat design popular after we had full 3D and glass aesthetics? Now they want to pretend they “invented” 3D shades emojis again..
  • xd19362 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.
    • xfalcox1 hour ago
      I'm wondering the same! How that article has no links is beyond me.
      • paularmstrong8 minutes ago
        I also like that the article uses whatever system emoji you have, so everything is just showing apple emoji in text for me. All I see are a few 3D video renders of theirs.
  • doublepg2344 minutes ago
    The Google "blob" emoji was the peak of emoji design.
    • 01101010010 minutes ago
      Getting rid of the blobs and putting a smiley face on 'pile of poo' were sad days.
  • havefunbesafe2 minutes ago
    Can we get the 3D-rendered emoji team to switch gears and work on making Drive's search function work >5% of queries?
  • smlacy48 minutes ago
    Can we please just make emoji bigger onscreen? They&#x27;re not even em-height most of the time. Most interfaces don&#x27;t scale the emojis when scaling the text.<p>There&#x27;s so much artistry and time &amp; effort put into these, and they end up feeling l ike a yellow smudge behind a crack on a dim screen in my life.
  • MDCore16 minutes ago
    &gt; Modern internet culture has steadily moved from mild expressions to drama, hyperbole and overwhelm.<p>rofl
  • IAmBroom48 minutes ago
    It&#x27;s also crap...<p>&gt; 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.<p>The early days of emojis used unpaired parentheses, colons, and semicolons. It&#x27;s like claiming int the early days of Apple the company released macOS 10.
    • thunderfork41 minutes ago
      I believe you&#x27;re referring to emotions, which are a separate and distinct concept&#x2F;term
      • CharlesW33 minutes ago
        I believe the point is that emoticons&#x2F;emoji&#x2F;kaomoji were <i>never</i> literal, and that it&#x27;s surprising that anyone whose job is communications-related would say this.
  • andrepd1 hour ago
    Yeah, an AI generated blogpost telling me about human emotion...
    • nibbleyou51 minutes ago
      I didn&#x27;t find it to be AI-generated.
      • Rebelgecko36 minutes ago
        (crying emoji) is a masterclass in modern vocabulary... seemed a bit suspect to me. Maybe people are just sadder