Improving consistency with other platforms - 12.1

[carlinmack]

Faces

• Grimacing face isn't consistent - Grimacing face is not consistent with other platforms #61
• Eyes should be to the right and not centered Smirking Face and Unamused Face - Consistency Issue #2 - moving eyes to the right #74
• face screaming in fear Hands should be clasped around the face not towards the eyes Fix face screaming with fear #85
• beaming face doesn't have bottom teeth showing - from issue "Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes" and "Beaming Face With Smiling Eyes" look extremely similar #82 - Fix Beaming Face #88
• frowning face with open mouth - shouldn't have eyebrows - Create extra emojis and fix tired, frowning with open mouth faces #100
• tired and weary face emoji consistently has a wide, down turned, open mouth — whereas our emojis have a closed mouth. - from Tired and weary face is not consistent with other platforms #67 - Create extra emojis and fix tired, frowning with open mouth faces #100 - 6fff9f0
• If we are using big eyes like so face with rolling eyes we should have similarly big eyes for flushed face and face with pleading eyes - Create extra emojis and fix tired, frowning with open mouth faces #100 - f0d9f9f
• Shocked Face with Exploding Head looks like some sort of crown but should have a cloud of smoke emanating (we use this emoji as an example of line art on the contributions page)
• face with look of triumph - complete redesign - There should be some steam coming out of nose
• serious face with symbols covering mouth - redesign - There are no symbols covering the mouth and the emoji should potentially be red

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

Other

• melon Should go green, orange, dark orange into the center Fix melon colours #79
• dumpling Should be white - Redesign Dumpling #80
• foot Heel should be fully rounded and there should be a ridge on the top of the foot - Fix foot to be more anatomically correct #89
• Seychelles flag should meet at a point - Fix Seychelles flag #90
• right anger bubble, thought balloon and speech balloon should all be flipped on the verticle axis - Fix emojis with speech bubbles to face correct direction #92
• footprints Too simple, should have some curves - Improve feet #94
• bikini Pieces should be bigger and closer together - fb866b5
• banana Too curvy, looks like a crescent moon - 1d94e43
• ok hand sign This and Pinching Hand above look like they have webbed fingers. - Fix webbed fingers of ok and pinching emoji #86
• pinching fingers Pinching fingers should be closer
• raccoon - redesign - should potentially be face on, right now it isn't distinctive enough, looks like a sort of lemur or monkey

Very happy to discuss and back down from any of these suggestions, also will add any issues to this post if they are raised below

[dnlutz]

Thank you very much for your list @carlinmack

The problem is not only consistency with other platforms but also design and quality of our OpenMoji. We are Unicode complete but far away from perfect:
https://twitter.com/honeybeedaehwi/status/1194412693106515969?s=20

We need a strategy to encourage people from outside to contribute and improve the design (and svg/outline) quality. I have some ideas how we could achieve this but I need some time to write it down / develop a concept.

[carlinmack]

The feet emoji listed is actually our good feet emoji!

I have a bunch of design stuff I'm working on right now but a lot of those are very easy fixes (the ones with moving the eyes and changing food colours) so I'm gonna be submitting a bunch of PRs in the coming weeks.

Have you seen my emails about EmojiNation and such? I would love to talk longer over email with you and @b-g about collaborating with them on new emoji proposals.

[carlinmack]

Closing this to replace with issues (#105 #106) for the next iteration