"People all over the world want to have emoji that reflect more human diversity, especially for skin tone," said the Unicode Consortium, the group responsible for coordinating emoji design.

Google's first attempt at creating emoji without apparent gender was back in 2015, when it briefly replaced its human icons with yellow blob-like figures (the dancer from this generation is my ...

To find out how the variations impact the way people interpret emoji and conversation, researchers at the University of Minnesota’s GroupLens research lab conducted a survey using 22 human-like ...

OS 18 adds fresh emojis that say what words can’t. From grossed out to guilty, here’s every new one and how it fits into your ...

Google changed its people emoji from yellow blobs to more human-like icons, and made conscious decisions about how best to represent gender and race. For instance, Google changed the color of ...

It’s not an icon for a cocktail ... It makes sense that emoji should strive to cover the gamut of human experience; more than half of human beings menstruate at some point in time, so that ...

Several Twitter users have reported being asked an in-app poll about new emoji options to signify reactions ... provides a reaction set with an angry icon" and to select how the angry icon would ...

Emoji might finally get some diversity. It’s taken two years and Twitter campaigns from Miley Cyrus and other celebs, but the cute, quirky emoticons that punctuate online communication may so… ...

Who doesn’t love a good Google blob? From 2013-2017, these doughy emoji served a special role in the digital universe. They represented humans in the form ...

Emoji are a loose kind of language.How people use them is up to them, whether they want to interpret them literally, or create a secret code with friends. I use them because I think they’re cute ...

Apple caused a minor dust-up earlier this month when it revealed a modified peach emoji with the iOS 10.2 update. The old peach icon—a flat, pinkish heart with a hint of a wrinkle in the middle ...