Potential emoji coming in September include heart hands, saluting face, and more
The Unicode Consortium is gearing up to approve the next batch of upcoming emoji. Here's what you can expect to see later this year.
With World Emoji Day just around the corner, you may be curious as to which emoji will be added to Unicode 14.0 in September. While the list will be finalized in September, most platforms won't begin rolling out support until late 2021 or early 2022.
The unicode draft list provides a sneak peek into the current draft list, which contains dozens of new emoji. Many of the proposed emoji are simple hand gestures, such as "palm up hand," "hand with index finger and thumb crossed," and "index pointing at the viewer."
Additionally, the handshake emoji, which has only available in a generic emoji-yellow skin tone, will now offer the ability to customize the color of both hands involved in the shake.
Gender inclusivity will also be high priority, with "person with crown" added to the draft list, rounding out the already existing "prince" and "princess."
Generic round emoji faces are up for some new additions as well. In addition, there will likely be emoji such as "melting face," "saluting face," "face with peeking eye," "saluting face," and more.
And, as always, there will be a fair amount of miscellaneous objects, too. Included in the draft list are:
In 2020, Apple added 117 new emoji, including boba, boulder, feather, ninja, mirror, and pinata emoji.
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With World Emoji Day just around the corner, you may be curious as to which emoji will be added to Unicode 14.0 in September. While the list will be finalized in September, most platforms won't begin rolling out support until late 2021 or early 2022.
The unicode draft list provides a sneak peek into the current draft list, which contains dozens of new emoji. Many of the proposed emoji are simple hand gestures, such as "palm up hand," "hand with index finger and thumb crossed," and "index pointing at the viewer."
Additionally, the handshake emoji, which has only available in a generic emoji-yellow skin tone, will now offer the ability to customize the color of both hands involved in the shake.
Gender inclusivity will also be high priority, with "person with crown" added to the draft list, rounding out the already existing "prince" and "princess."
Generic round emoji faces are up for some new additions as well. In addition, there will likely be emoji such as "melting face," "saluting face," "face with peeking eye," "saluting face," and more.
And, as always, there will be a fair amount of miscellaneous objects, too. Included in the draft list are:
- Beans
- Bubbles
- Coral
- Crutch
- Empty Nest
- Hamsa
- Heavy Equals Sign
- ID card
- Jar
- Lotus
- Low Battery
- Mirror Ball
- Nest with Eggs
- Playground Slide
- Pouring Liquid
- Ring Bouy
- Troll
In 2020, Apple added 117 new emoji, including boba, boulder, feather, ninja, mirror, and pinata emoji.
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I’m wondering how one could physically salute with the thumb on the top side of the hand?
I know it’s just a cartoon, but seeing a disembodied hand floating unnaturally like that is rather creepy.
https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/
https://emojipedia.org/face-with-monocle/
Apple:
Other platforms:
Pretty much every icon they make is the definitive version of that icon that is interpreted in some way on other platforms. There's thousands of them too:
https://emojipedia.org/people/
https://emojipedia.org/nature/
https://emojipedia.org/food-drink/
It seems to just be expected of Apple that they are the standard-bearer for things now but that's not an easy thing to do making all those icons in a definitive way and it's strange that the other big companies don't hire good artists to do the same (this extends through the system UIs). Maybe they don't think it's important enough and of course it's easier to do consistently bad graphics than consistently good graphics but there are load of illustrators all over the world, it would cost them negligible amounts to hire some good artists.
This is Apple and Samsung shrug emoji.
On the Samsung one, the upper parts of the arms are too small, there's a white ring around the mouth, the shoulders aren't shrugging and the mouth is open. Such obviously poor choices that don't convey that emoji.
The proposal papers give some insight into how they are selected:
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20217-nest-emoji.pdf
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20190r-swollen-belly-emoji.pdf
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19400-saluting-face.pdf
It looks like it's random people (but usually people already affiliated with emoji groups) submitting requests and then trying to justify their interest level by showing search engine hits and search trends relative to a neutral term like elephant. It looks like a pretty amateur operation and it gets way too much public discourse than it deserves.