Improving design of emoji

[carlinmack]

Continuation from #106

Face emojis with hands

We have 5 fingers in these emoji Face With Finger Covering Closed Lips and Thinking Face and I think we should have 5 fingers in these emoji too

• 4 fingers - smiling face with smiling eyes and hand covering mouth
• 4 fingers - Yawning Face
• 4 fingers - Hugging Face Also hands are too low
• b2cbf2c by @nicdiac

Animals

• llama - neck should be thicker - 7b82580
• raccoon - tweet - change tail to be bushier and add white to the face
• bee - tweet 1 tweet 2 - looks like an angel, not anatomically similar to a bee
• sloth - Poor
• monkey - back left leg should be defined in shape
• hippopatamus - too simple, mouth should be bigger
• kangaroo - Kangaroo legs don't look like that
• skunk - the body is so short! this is an angry sloth

Food

• tomato - uses the darker green for the leaves instead of the lighter green
• grapes - uses the dark variation of purple instead of the light version and uses the light version for shading instead of the other way around
• strawberry - the leaves should be flat, looks like a radish
• red apple - The borders close all the way (no open contour, see green apple for a better model) and in addition they use light gray to add shine to the apple. This is an added detail that none of the other fruit have and I think goes away from the goals. In addition, the placing of the stem hole makes it so the apple has a 3d perspective instead of being flat like the style guide says (And like the green apple does well)
• tangerine - uses a 3d perspective for the stem instead of a flat one
• cucumber - could be better. It's much too curvy and round for a cucumber and it looks more like a germ

new food issues

• mushroom - while our design is iconic and consistent, it would be nice to have an edible mushroom design (maybe button mushroom?)
• oyster - redesign - I don't think this should be purple at all
• waffle - tweet - add butter and syrup
• custard - looks like a cake, not a creme caramel

Others

• classical building - tweet - Very Poor, should have 4 columns, should be more structural (?) - 250a3d6
• hot face - tongue is too high - 8febf94
• drooling face - extra stroke on drool - ae32152
• cross mark - should be very symmetrical - d09ffe2
• infinity - do the intersecting lines contour
• lab coat - should be symmetrical
• mens room and womens room - should be symmetrical- [x] teddy bear - tweet - Poor - not cute enough :(
• kimono - tweet - Very Poor
• dagger - tweet - change way handle connects to hilt
• cactus - tweet - arms should be the same colour, have some spines
• train car - tweet - Poor - hide the wheels
• amphora - tweet - Very Poor, thicker handles, design should be geometric, not block shapes
• bowl with spoon - tweet - Very Poor - Bowl should at least have a flat base, curved spoon would be a plus
• guardsman - tweet - Very Poor - hat should be domed among a lot of other adjustments
• book pile - tweet - Very Poor - too simple, don't look like real books, should show edge of pages
• moyai - easter island head - tweet - Very Poor, see source for criticism
• microscope - tweet - tweet - Poor, see tweet
• mosque - tweet - should be one structure
• lady beetle - fix head colour
• mosquito - make larger
• bug - base off of an actual caterpillar
• old man - hair should be improved, maybe have male pattern baldness
• ok hand sign This and Pinching Hand above look like they have webbed fingers when displayed on a dark background. This will require a lot of thought and discussion to fix - Fix webbed fingers of ok and pinching emoji #86

[nicdiac]

Hi! I leave here the corrections on the 4 finger ones. I also do some sutil corrections on the ones with already 5 fingers, like a hand to low and excessively big on 1F914 or a little unnatural pose on 1F92B (Although I'm not sure about this last one changes, I leave it up to you)

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Leave me your thougts!

[carlinmack]

yes great stuff! I much prefer v2, we don't like unnecessary anchor points :) I also like what you've done with the unnatural poses.

for reference:

watch out for little imperfections like this though,


it should be snapped to the smooth node on the left finger

also we prefer if you join lines together which are part of the same shape :)

[carlinmack]

@nicdiac can you make sure you export your files following these instructions? https://openmoji.org/styleguide/#file_export it seems there's CSS attributes in your SVGs

[b-g]

@dnlutz Do you want to add anything in terms of curve quality or OpenMoji hands and fingers?

[dnlutz]

Sorry for being late to the party AND it's just a sketch … but I would be strongly in favor of going in the opposite direction. The more fingers, the more tiny fragmented elements we get. The interior spaces become too thin and don't look good.

I don't think we need the fingers here at all – the main thing is to recognize the hands. What do you think? Would that be a direction you could go?

[dnlutz]

sorry, i did not want to close this issue but add an image …

[nicdiac]

I dont know if it is an oversimplification. But in the other hand I think thant otherwise there are a lot of useless lines. In any case I would leave it with five fingers, the difference is subtle but it looks, an it would differs much of the other emoji lines.

[carlinmack]

If we're representing fingers at all it should be five, however I think we should hint at them like