Get ready for a new set of 72 new emojis, including
"facepalm" and "selfie," are in the pipeline.
The new
emojis also include "rolling on the floor laughing," "sneezing
face," and "dancing man." Animal, food and sports lovers will
get their fix with ones depicting a shark, bacon, pancakes, water polo and even
a fencer.
These new
sets of emojis were just recently approved by the Unicode Consortium, a
non-profit group that creates globally standardized emojis and text characters.
The consortium sets guidelines that
designers at places like Apple and Google then use as they come up with new emojis for their platforms.
designers at places like Apple and Google then use as they come up with new emojis for their platforms.
That
means it will be a while before tech companies introduce the new batch for
download on your phone or computer, even though the official Unicode release is
coming later this month. Emojipedia, a website dedicated to all things emoji
published mock up images of what it
thinks the new ones will look like in the "Apple-style."
Turns out
anyone can submit a proposal for new emoji, but shepherding it through the
approval process can take quite some time. The successful ones have to meet
several criteria, such as distinctiveness and an expected high frequency of
use.
For
example, an emoji for a cassoulet or stew "probably couldn't be easily
distinguished from [the already existing] 'pot of food,'" Unicode said.
Google proposed
to Unicode last month a set of 13 emojis that show women in a range of jobs,
including health care, science, education, farming and construction. A further
13 corresponding emojis will show men in the same roles. But these haven't yet
been approved by the consortium.
As it
stands now, there are over 1,000 standardized emojis used globally that depict
everything from ice cream to dragons to police cars. However, the current emoji
selection feels implicitly sexist, showing men running and policing while women
dance and cut their hair.
A few
other emojis currently being considered for release next year include "face
with one eyebrow raised," and some fun food-related items, including
dumpling, chopsticks, takeout box and fortune cookie.
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