Today, the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization responsible for determining which emoji get the green light, is relaunching its website with an updated, modern design that aims to make ...

The Unicode Consortium's new website is available starting today, and to earn money for future endeavors, the site is allowing people to "adopt" an emoji character, including new Unicode 12 ...

Today is World Emoji Day, and the Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of some of the new emoji that should hit your devices early next year as part of Unicode 17.0. If you ask me, it’s a promising ...

Unicode 9 is now official, making standard a whole new set of characters and — yes — new emoji. In fact, in addition to 7,500 new characters, Unicode 9.0 has added a total of 72 new emoji to ...

Unicode 9 adds 18 new “Food and Drink” emoji, as well. Arguably the most popular one here will be the bacon emoji, but there will also be cucumber, pancake, egg, peanut, and croissant emoji ...

Although Unicode has made the new emojis available, users will probably not see them again for quite some time (just to give an example, considering what happened last year for Emoji 11.0, Google ...

The Unicode Standard had 2,666 emojis as of May 2017, according to Emojipedia (yes, that's an encyclopedia dedicated to emojis). The crop for 2018 sparked its own, shall we say, storm around the ...

The Unicode Standard Version 7.0 brings with it 250 new emoji as part of the selection of new characters, many of which have been adapted from characters in Windings and Webdings fonts.

An index of this year's additions, edited in part by Apple engineer Peter Edberg, can be found on the Unicode website. Aside from emoji, Unicode 8.0 includes a set of lowercase Cherokee syllables ...

The Unicode Ƀ symbol has been chosen by a website of industry members as a way to better legitimize bitcoin as a symbol both in print and online media.