The emoji skin tones were first launched in 2015, and are modeled on the dermatological Fitzpatrick Scale, ranging from "pale white" to "darkest brown."Descending down the scale, users can select ...

The reality star and model chose a fist bump emoji in "medium" — a darker skin tone than her own, critics said — when she shared the interview she and her family gave to The Hollywood Reporter ...

Facebook has rolled out 125 new family emoji, expanding the default yellow skin tone to include light, medium, and darker tones, and more family combinations.Though the rollout enables users to ...

If you're annoyed by the "Pregnant Man" emoji, you're getting irritated by the technical equivalent of stacking three Lego bricks on top of each other. Here's how Unicode U+1FAC3 came about.

In all, Emoji version 15.1 includes 108 new characters when considering skin tone and gender variations. The new emoji will eventually be available in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

It would be sufficient; I tapped the tiny icon on my tiny screen, only to then be presented with a choice of skin tones for my swimmer: light, medium, dark, or Simpsons-yellow.

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...