NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf is out of date

[ghost]

Guidelines don't show how we're supposed to go about building this font from source.

[behdad]

Guidelines don't show how we're supposed to go about building this font from source.

We don't have sources for that font as far as I know.

[brawer]

@Undeterminant, regarding “building this font from source”, did you perhaps mean NotoColorEmoji? The build instructions would be here.

[ghost]

@brawer: I read those instructions. My concern is mostly that the not-colour version is missing glyphs from the colour version.

@behdad: is there a way that we could update with the latest version? Or is it not generated from the colour version?

[dougfelt]

It's not generated from the color version. There is a significant
difference in the repertoires of the two fonts. The B/W repertoire has not
been updated in some time.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Claire Charron notifications@github.com
wrote:

@brawer https://github.com/brawer: I read those instructions. My
concern is mostly that the not-colour version is missing glyphs from the
colour version.

@behdad https://github.com/behdad: is there a way that we could update
with the latest version? Or is it not generated from the colour version?

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[ghost]

Hmm. In that case, it makes sense to either document it as unmaintained or keep this issue open to update it. I would really like to see work done to update it, though; it really helps to have a non-image font for programs which don't support fonts with images.

[slokhorst]

Is there any way to help out with updating the monochrome emoji to have the same coverage as the colored ones? It's a pity it has such limited coverage, especially because most Linux systems cannot render the colored ones (issue #36).

[aphillips]

I want to pile on here: I have an application where I need to print emoji in black-and-white. The color version produces grayscaling that I don't want. Worst case, I'd rather have some grayscale glyphs and mostly b&w. But what I don't want are tofus.

[dougfelt]

Unfortunately, we're not currently budgeted to design full b/w emoji. As you point out, rendering color emoji in grayscale often doesn't work well-- the designs often rely on color contrasts that disappear in greyscale.

[brawer]

Hello everyone! The history of NotoEmoji-Regular is quite complicated, so we don’t have the original design masters ourselves (long story; and no, we didn’t lose them). Therefore, it has taken us a while to resolve this. But we’ve now converted the font from TrueType into UFO format and pushed it to googlei18n/noto-source/src/NotoEmoji. Going forward, this will be the official upstream source for this font. If you’d like to add or change a glyph, we’re looking forward to your pull requests; see also the README.