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❣️ (Heart Exclamation) has become a go-to emoji for me. Strangely, I never stopped to think of its origin. Hermann Zapf, of course! It was among dozens of his 1978 Dingbats adopted into Unicode 1.0 in 1991. The block was even initially named after the typeface! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbats_(Unicode_block)
Image: detail from ITC Zapf Dingbats specimen booklet via @nicksherman https://flic.kr/p/fvHrm7
Idk if anyone's done this already, but I made a blob emoji that offers you a spoon
Idk if anyone's done this already, but I made a blob emoji that offers you a spoon
Petition to get this added as an animated emoji on all the cool Fedi instances.
After some discussion, we've landed on :gay_alice_shades:, :gay_alice_party:, and :gay_alice_party_shades: for the names.
Shades version: https://drive.proton.me/urls/R7RR2BRX80#BLb7bBFAV2EZ
Parrot version: https://drive.proton.me/urls/6EDKVE1BS0#5nMBsrUJf3cT
Parrot shades version: https://drive.proton.me/urls/PQ514RVZ1G#okrhNvTI5mM2
Now available on:
- hellions.cloud
- aus.social
- darkmoon.social
- infosec.exchange
Petition to get this added as an animated emoji on all the cool Fedi instances.
After some discussion, we've landed on :gay_alice_shades:, :gay_alice_party:, and :gay_alice_party_shades: for the names.
Shades version: https://drive.proton.me/urls/R7RR2BRX80#BLb7bBFAV2EZ
Parrot version: https://drive.proton.me/urls/6EDKVE1BS0#5nMBsrUJf3cT
Parrot shades version: https://drive.proton.me/urls/PQ514RVZ1G#okrhNvTI5mM2
Now available on:
- hellions.cloud
- aus.social
- darkmoon.social
- infosec.exchange
⭐ A Star Of The Bytes ⭐
#screenshot #emoji #bytes #star #itjoke #digital #starbyte #starbites #code #it
July 17 is World Emoji Day! But is it only going to be Gen Xers and Millennials that celebrate it? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/11/language/emoji-japanese-gen-z-texts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #emoji #vocabulary #jlptn3 #jlptn1 #grammar
Heading out? Listen on the go to amaze your friends with emoji trivia!
Today, @shadychars.mastodon.social, author of "Face with Tears of Joy," talks about what emoji are doing in our messages.
We covered:
— The long history of emoji
— Why Unicode approves every new emoji
— Why some emoji use more data than others
— Why a tiny number of domain names include emoji
— Why “person with blond hair” has a loaded history
Heading out? Listen on the go to amaze your friends with emoji trivia!
Today, @shadychars.mastodon.social, author of "Face with Tears of Joy," talks about what emoji are doing in our messages.
We covered:
— The long history of emoji
— Why Unicode approves every new emoji
— Why some emoji use more data than others
— Why a tiny number of domain names include emoji
— Why “person with blond hair” has a loaded history
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