Moreover, Unicode can't remove a character once added — while it can update emoji, it's hesitant to add a flag that might not last long. Usage was also a major concern.

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

What’s also notable about the above list is that the Unicode Consortium has been working on it longer than usual. In 2020, the organization delayed the release of Unicode 14.0 due to the pandemic.

Notably, these emoji candidates were not expected to be finalized before October in Unicode 13.1. But it seems like Google was well ahead of the plans for introducing these new emojis.

No new emoji will be unveiled in 2021. The planned annual release instead will be pushed back to 2022, according to the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that oversees emoji standards and is ...

The Unicode Consortium has conducted research into the emoji symbols which have been used most frequently in 2021. And on first glance, the top 10 are reassuringly positive in outlook: Laughter ...

In July, the Unicode Technical Committee was a bit of a buzzkill: It announced that for now, it would not add a white-wine emoji to Unicode’s standard emoji mix.

The Unicode Consortium, the governing body in charge of the official emoji, has announced a bunch of new pictographs for version 12.0. As is usually the case, the final list is a hodgepodge of ...

Flat shoes! Redheads! Yarn! — to drop, but Apple is already on to the next batch. The company announced on Friday that it has proposed 13 new, accessibility-themed emoji to the Unicode Consortium.