Couples are about to get a wider variety of emoji to represent them, thanks to Tinder. The Unicode Consortium — which, among other things, controls the officially supported emojis — will add a variety ...

Emoji of single people of colour and same-sex couples were added in the last several years, but not in mixed-tone combinations. In real life, the rate of interracial marriage has increased over the ...

A selection of the new emoji released by The Unicode Consortium for 2019. Apple proposed more emoji to better represent individuals with disabilities, which includes individuals with wheelchairs, ...

Any emoji in the "people" set that looks like a human can be changed by clicking and holding, and the redesigned characters also appear in iOS 8.3 beta 2.

Skin tones for limited use were added to the Unicode Standard for emoji in 2015. More representation of women in 2016, some “gender-inclusive” people in 2017 and hair colour options last year.

In the world of emojis, interracial couples had virtually no options in terms of skin tone. But the emoji gods, otherwise known as the Unicode Consortium, recently rectified that, approving 71 new ...