Unicode 15

[jdecked]

Hello folks! We're currently working on Unicode 15. You can track our progress on it in this issue. We're hoping to have it out sometime in March. We would really, really love some help – so feel free to comment on this issue if you're willing to create any of the unfinished SVGs in the table below. It's totally cool if two people want to work on the same emoji; we'll review all submissions before publishing.

Also, if you're a company or person that wants to support us so we can have more time to devote to Twemoji – we're working on getting GitHub Sponsors set up! But feel free to reach out and let us know if there's interest.

Sneak Peek

Unicode 15 To-Do Tracker

Done	Unicode Codepoint	CLDR Short Name	Has Skin?	Category	Keywords	Designer
	1fae8	Shaking face		Smileys & Emotion	earthquake, face, shaking, shock, vibrate
✅	1fa77	Pink heart		Smileys & Emotion	cute, heart, like, love, pink	@sofodesign
✅	1fa75	Light blue heart		Smileys & Emotion	cyan, heart, light blue, light blue heart, teal	@sofodesign
✅	1fa76	Grey heart		Smileys & Emotion	gray, grey heart, heart, silver, slate	@sofodesign
	1faf7	Leftwards pushing hand	✅	People & Body	high five, leftward, leftwards pushing hand, push, refuse, stop, wait
	1faf8	Rightwards pushing hand	✅	People & Body	high five, push, refuse, rightward, rightwards pushing hand, stop, wait
	1face	Moose		Animals & Nature	animal, antlers, elk, mammal, moose
	1facf	Donkey		Animals & Nature	animal, ass, burro, donkey, mammal, mule, stubborn
	1fabd	Wing		Animals & Nature	angelic, aviation, bird, flying, mythology, wing
✅	1f426-200d-2b1b	Black bird		Animals & Nature	bird, black, crow, raven, rook	@sofodesign
	1fabf	Goose		Animals & Nature	bird, fowl, goose, honk, silly
	1fabc	Jellyfish		Animals & Nature	burn, invertebrate, jelly, jellyfish, marine, ouch, stinger
	1fabb	Hyacinth		Animals & Nature	bluebonnet, flower, hyacinth, lavender, lupine, snapdragon
	1fada	Ginger root		Food & Drink	beer, ginger root, root, spice
	1fadb	Pea pod		Food & Drink	beans, edamame, legume, pea, pod, vegetable
	1faad	Folding hand fan		Objects	cooling, dance, fan, flutter, folding hand fan, hot, shy
✅	1faae	Hair pick		Objects	Afro, comb, hair, pick	@Gabe-Mitnick
✅	1fa87	Maracas		Objects	instrument, maracas, music, percussion, rattle, shake	@jyo0329
✅	1fa88	Flute		Objects	fife, flute, music, pipe, recorder, woodwind	@sofodesign
✅	1faaf	Khanda		Symbols	khanda, religion, Sikh	@jyo0329
	1f6dc	Wireless		Symbols	computer, internet, network, wireless	@sofodesign

[nyabla]

Hi there! I took a stab at making a goose emoji :^) please let me know any feedback or alterations and if I should submit a PR with it

Discord screenshot:

[jyo0329]

意外と悪くなさそうですね😅
黒い鳥に関してはカラスに似たやつが良い感じだと個人的に思います。

[12Me21]

I made a design for the Wireless icon:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 36 36">
    <rect fill="#3B88C3" width="36" height="36" rx="4"/>
    <g transform="translate(18,26.5) rotate(-135)">
        <path d="M 0,19 a 20,20 0 00 19,-19 M 0,13 a 14,14 0 00 13,-13 M 0,7 a 8,8 0 00 7,-7"
            fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="3" stroke-linecap="round"/>
    </g>
    <circle cx="18" cy="27" r="2.5" fill="#FFFFFF"/>
</svg>

(the background color/shape matches similar symbols (📶,🔄,etc.), and I've tried to keep it aligned to a 18x18 grid, like many of the other twemoji)

[jyo0329]

I made a design for the Khanda icon
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big size

huge size

[jyo0329]

Added support for Maracas emoji
The style was modeled after https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/svg/emoji_u1fa87.svg images
small size

big size

huge size

[jdecked]

@nyabla woohoo! Thanks! Can you make a PR with this? The one change we want is to smooth out the curve on the goose's upper back:

@12Me21 thanks, but @sofodesign already has something for Wireless Symbol that we'll be going with!

@jyo0329 thanks for all these superb submissions! PR Khanda and we'll approve it with no further comments. We're still chatting about Maracas and Shaking Face.

[12Me21]

(ah, sorry about all the duplicates, I created these a few days ago and didn't know about this project until now)
anyway, for Shaking Face, perhaps something similar to Noto Emoji? I like the way they've made it diagonal, to fit movement lines without shrinking the face very much)
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[nyabla]

@jdecked thank you for the feedback :) when I'm creating the PR do I just have to put the relevant files in the corresponding assets folder or are there any scripts I need to run in addition to this?

[TheEssem]

Here's another take on the shaking face emoji. Still not quite sure about the face itself (especially the lines next to the eyes), however my goal was to keep it somewhat minimal while adhering to the grid.

[jdecked]

@jdecked thank you for the feedback :) when I'm creating the PR do I just have to put the relevant files in the corresponding assets folder or are there any scripts I need to run in addition to this?

@nyabla Put the relevant files in the corresponding assets folder (assets/svg) and we'll take care of making the PNG from the SVG. There's a GitHub action which will run on your PR to optimize the SVG.

[advaith1]

This color seems much paler than the light blue heart emojis on other platforms; it looks almost white.

Emojipedia:

Same for the pink heart emoji.

[santumerino]

Hello! I wanted to contribute the leftwards and rightwards pushing hand emojis, but being that I'm not much of a designer, I wanted to get people's feedback before making a PR.

I got started with a quick draft. I think it looks alright in the context of something like a Discord message:

...but I'm not entirely convinced with how it looks at a bigger size:

I'm sure there are some obvious things I can do to improve this, but I'm not experienced enough to see them. Is there anything that stands out?

[wdymThisIsntAvailable]

@santumerino The pushing hand looks like it has 4 fingers instead of 5

[wdymThisIsntAvailable]

@advaith1 Does this look good?

[jyo0329]

🐦⬛

[treuks]

By the way, just in case, I have created the jellyfish emoji and I have also PR'd it in #17. It currently looks like this:

Could use some feedback, if you have some.

[wdymThisIsntAvailable]

Try turning the jellyfish into an indigo hue. I think that would look good on it.

[jdecked]

@jyo0329 Maracas looks good to us. Feel free to PR in. We'd been talking about the colour scheme but in some searching it doesn't seem like it should be a problem to us.

General comment on PRs – we'll merge them all right before preparing the v15 release so we can keep a clean main for any patch releases before then. (Theoretically we could set up a feature branch for v15 to merge outstanding approved PRs into, but this way is fine too and less work.)

[santumerino]

@santumerino The pushing hand looks like it has 4 fingers instead of 5

Good point @bsoap-cat, I notice most versions of this emoji are seen from a more side-on, flat view where only 3 fingers are visible. Maybe it'd be a better idea to do something closer to that?

[treuks]

Try turning the jellyfish into an indigo hue. I think that would look good on it.

I'm not fully sure indigo looks good, but here are some alternative color versions

[jyo0329]

ok

[jyo0329]

I made Lime and Brown Mushroom with Emoji 15.1

[wdymThisIsntAvailable]

This version of the shaking face transports the message way clearer than the other ones. Black bird on the emoji picker within Twitter also looks good.

How does that transmit a more understandable message with both the lines and the duplicate transparent face? I think it's better with just the lines like all of the vendors.

[schrmh]

I think it's better with just the lines like all of the vendors.

Possible misinterpretations:
Apple & Samsung: listening to music, the lines being headphones. Or something alien-technology. Or Frankenstein. When I first saw those, I also got remembered of weights (and I did not see anything weights-related in years.)
Google & WA: cheese grated.
FB: Saturn with face.
Well, all could also be seen as people on drugs. The Twitter one as well but it's hopefully less likely.

[wdymThisIsntAvailable]

I think it's better with just the lines like all of the vendors.

"Possible misinterpretations: Apple & Samsung: listening to music, the lines being headphones. Or something alien-technology. Or Frankenstein. When I first saw those, I also got remembered of weights (and I did not see anything weights-related in years.) Google & WA: cheese grated. FB: Saturn with face. Well, all could also be seen as people on drugs. The Twitter one as well but it's hopefully less likely."

Shaking faces are smileys, not any of the things you mentioned.

[jyo0329]

(ah, sorry about all the duplicates, I created these a few days ago and didn't know about this project until now)
anyway, for Shaking Face, perhaps something similar to Noto Emoji? I like the way they've made it diagonal, to fit movement lines without shrinking the face very much)
→

Hmm🧐

[jyo0329]

What about the update?

[12Me21]

Note: twitter has finally pushed their own update:

images

[Matt-Volp]

Note: twitter has finally pushed their own update:

images

Are these publically available now, then? Where did you find them?

[12Me21]

Are these publically available now, then? Where did you find them?

they're all at https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/<codepoint>.svg
(i just checked the url of an emoji in a random tweet)
these haven't been officially publicly released, so there are licensing issues as mentioned earlier

[Matt-Volp]

Are these publically available now, then? Where did you find them?

they're all at https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/<codepoint>.svg (i just checked the url of an emoji in a random tweet) these haven't been officially publicly released, so there are licensing issues as mentioned earlier

Ok, understood. How close can the remakes be to the originals? I mean a light blue heart is a light blue heart, right?

I might just take the ones Twitter has released and switch them up slightly for my needs.

[wdymThisIsntAvailable]

Now that Twemoji 15.0 has released, what do we do now?

[jdecked]

Now that Twemoji 15.0 has released, what do we do now?

It's been updated on Twitter itself, but not released to the open source community. We're trying to work with the releaser (one of our old coworkers) to also release on the OSS project, then we'll pull them into the fork. No ETA at the moment, unfortunately, but we'll definitely post here when we have one.

[Felting]

Now that Twemoji 15.0 has released, what do we do now?

It's been updated on Twitter itself, but not released to the open source community. We're trying to work with the releaser (one of our old coworkers) to also release on the OSS project, then we'll pull them into the fork. No ETA at the moment, unfortunately, but we'll definitely post here when we have one.

See #43

[jdecked]

Now that Twemoji 15.0 has released, what do we do now?

It's been updated on Twitter itself, but not released to the open source community. We're trying to work with the releaser (one of our old coworkers) to also release on the OSS project, then we'll pull them into the fork. No ETA at the moment, unfortunately, but we'll definitely post here when we have one.

See #43

We cannot merge this because we don't have the rights to any of these images unless they're released under a relevant open source license. Having them publicly available on the Twitter website doesn't grant us the right to republish them in the OSS domain, unfortunately (it also doesn't grant permission to anyone able to rip them off the Twitter website to actually be able to reuse them without potential legal consequences).

[eduardog3000]

Now that Twemoji 15.0 has released, what do we do now?

It's been updated on Twitter itself, but not released to the open source community. We're trying to work with the releaser (one of our old coworkers) to also release on the OSS project, then we'll pull them into the fork. No ETA at the moment, unfortunately, but we'll definitely post here when we have one.

It's been a few months, any status on this?

[wdymThisIsntAvailable]

@eduardog3000 This hasn't been going anywhere, so I doubt that there would be anymore progress coming soon.

[Bronnel721]

Hello everyone! Just to let you know, I made a PR to include some of the new emojis including 15.0 and 15.1. I didn't add all of them though. The PR is #49 EDIT: Nevermind, it's closed.

[jdecked]

See v15.0.2. Please report any oddities present in v15.0.2 by opening a new issue.

Caution

v15.0.0 and v15.0.1 were published to NPM with unfortunate bugs. You want v15.0.2.