Twitter Emoji for Everyone

https://twitter.github.io/twemoji/

by niftylettuce • 12 years ago

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MAGZine• 12 years ago

Interesting. These seem to strike a balance between Apple's decidedly glosss-but-normal-shaped emoji and Google's flat-but-ghost-shaped emoji. I'd say that we really need an open emoji standard, but we all know how that goes.

surreal2• 12 years ago

We do indeed - http://xkcd.com/927/

marcuskaz2• 12 years ago

There is a Unicode standard, see http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/unicode-7-0-introduce... which explains a lot about emoji.

There is room for interpretation to what each drawing will look like in each implementations. The standard simply says something like: "Cloud With Lightning"

veidr• 12 years ago

Google's flat-but-ghost-shaped emoji

Until this moment I have always wondered why Google chose to use poo-shaped emoji...

jagger27• 12 years ago

Is it possible just to treat Emojis just like we treat regular typeface fonts? Is there something preventing me from downloading Apple's Emoji "font" and setting it as the default on my Android device?

This would allow developers to specify their own preferred sets (and allow users to override).

marcuskaz2• 12 years ago

The only two emoji sets that I know that are under an open license are now Twitter and EmojiOne

surreal2• 12 years ago

Do WhatsApp license Apple's emoji? They've been in WhatsApp's Android app for years.

chimeracoder• 12 years ago

Debian releases ttf-symbola (as part of ttf-ancient-fonts), so I imagine that has to be free as well, given Debian's policies.

yincrash• 12 years ago

AndroidEmoji.ttf is Apache 2 just like the rest of the Android source. Here's fedora's page[1] that links straight to the Android JB source folder of fonts.

[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Google_AndroidEmoji_fonts

lxcp• 12 years ago

Note that graphics are licensed under CC-BY-4.0, which means if you're using this on your blog you have give attribution to Twitter Inc (most likely in your footer).

No, thanks under these circumstances.

caniszczyk3• 12 years ago

Attribution in the source would suffice if it really bothers you. Almost all open source software has attribution as a requirement (ever look at your iPhone Settings->About->Legal->Legal Notices)

That being said, we could potentially CC0 the graphics in the future but attribution isn't much to ask.

marcosdumay• 12 years ago

Attribution requirement is enough to break the FSF guidelines, and not compatible with free licenses. What means that this font can not be used in BSD or GPL software.

No open source software has attribution as a requirement by definition.

Anyway, there's nothing wrong with any of that if it's really what you want. What's wrong is thinking that the requirement is banal, and thus harmless.

jbranchaud• 12 years ago

The name of this repository/API (twemoji) is unfortunate in my opinion. It is odd and makes me think there is something misspelled.

iLoch• 12 years ago

I just wrote my own... Seems like adding an entire library for this is definitely overkill.

    var emojify = function(message) {
        var codes = [
          '\ud83c[\udf00-\udfff]',
          '\ud83d[\udc00-\ude4f]',
          '\ud83d[\ude80-\udeff]'
        ];
        return message.replace(new RegExp(codes.join('|'), 'g'), '<span class="emoji">$&</span>');
      }

Edit: If this isn't clear, you'd then define an emoji based font family for the `emoji` CSS class. This means no image based emoji and therefore no colour, but IMO it's much simpler and actually more visually pleasing (black and white forces smarter emoji designs).

caniszczyk3• 12 years ago

The library is simple and works well for us and Tweetdeck. Everyone is welcome to tweak it.

The value like stated in the blog is that the permissive licensing of this project/graphics will enable more spread of emoji across platforms. (see something like this blog for why licensing has been a PITA: http://words.steveklabnik.com/emoji-licensing)

mxpxrocks10• 12 years ago

thanks for this guys!

Twitter Emoji for Everyone

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