Apple Color Emoji

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Short description: Colour typeface used on Apple platforms
Apple Color Emoji
Category
Emoji
Designer(s)Various[1]
Commissioned byApple Inc.
Also known asEmoji

Apple Color Emoji (stylized as AppleColorEmoji) is a color typeface used on Apple platforms such as iOS and macOS to display Emoji characters.[2][3]

The inclusion of emoji in the iPhone and in the Unicode standard has been credited with promoting the spreading use of emoji outside Japan.[4][5][6] As with many Apple icons past and present, they feature a design based on deep, saturated colors and gradual transitions of color, often incorporating subtle gloss effects.[7][8]

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Original release

The first version of Apple Color Emoji was released alongside iPhone OS 2.2 in November 2008 and contained 471 individual emoji glyphs.[9] Originally limited to Japanese iPhone models, this restriction was later lifted.[10]

The designers of the first Apple Color Emoji typeface were Raymond Sepulveda, Angela Guzman and Ollie Wagner.[11]

Due to the iPhone originally launching in Japan on the SoftBank network, some Apple emoji designs may have been created to resemble those on SoftBank phones.[12] For example, 💃 (defined by Unicode as 'dancer' with no specified gender) is feminine on Apple and SoftBank phones[13] but was previously masculine or gender-neutral on others.[14][15]

Expansion

In the years 2011–2018 the Apple Color Emoji font expanded from 471 to 3,633 emoji[16] as of September 2021.[17]

An updated emoji keyboard was released in iOS version 8.3, this update also added varied skin tones and same-gender couples included in Unicode 6.[18] As a result, the human emoji faces switched to a neutral yellow skin tone by default, similar to the smiley emoji.[19][20]

The majority of Apple Color Emoji designs were updated with the release of iOS 10.2 in December 2016, with many appearing to be 3D-rendered.[21] According to Apple Vice President of User Interface Design Alan Dye, emoji redesigns were due to the advent of Animoji, Memoji, and higher resolution screens.[22]

157 new emoji were added to iOS in October 2018.[23]

The designers of the Apple Color Emoji typeface in versions after the initial release have not been publicly credited, following Apple's standard practice of not crediting work to individuals.[citation needed] Former Apple employees have offered accounts of who created various designs.[24][25][26]

Implementation

Prior to iOS 5 SoftBank encoding was used for encoding emoji on Apple devices. Beginning with iOS 5, emoji are encoded using the Unicode standard.[27][28] Emoji glyphs are stored as PNG images,[29] at several resolutions (strikes of 20, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96 and 160 pixels squared) using a proprietary "sbix" table that was later standardized in OpenType version 1.8.[29][30][31]


The font contains a number of Easter eggs. Several glyphs contain portions of the text of Apple's Think different advertisement ("Here's to the crazy ones..."), including 1F4CB "Clipboard" (📋), 1F4C4 "Page facing up" (📄), 1F4D1 "Bookmark Tabs" (📑), and 1F4D6 "Open book" (📖), among others. Other emoji, specified as generic objects, appear as Apple products. For example, 1F4BB "Personal computer" (💻) appears as a modern MacBook,[32] while 231A "Wristwatch" (⌚) shows an Apple Watch. 1F301 "Foggy" (🌁) shows the Golden Gate Bridge behind San Francisco fog, a reference to Apple's California headquarters, and 1F4F0 "Newspaper" (📰)'s headline reads "The Apple Times".[33]

A variety of styles are used in the original sets. For example, 🐬 and 🐙 (dolphin and octopus) were quite stylized with 'button' eyes, while 🐈 and 🐀 (cat and rat) were more realistic, resembling watercolor paintings. This mixture of styles creates a range of possible designs: for example, 🐏 and 🐑 (ram and sheep) look clearly different, as do 🐫 and 🐪 (Bactrian camel and dromedary).

Trends

Because of the calendar emoji (📅) showing July 17, this date was chosen for the annual World Emoji Day.[34] The date originally referred to the day Apple premiered its calendar application, iCal, in 2002.[35][36]

Although primarily intended for onscreen display (iOS having limited printing capabilities), some printed displays and signs have used Apple Color Emoji designs.[37] New York magazine used Apple Color Emoji in a printed feature on the growing use of emoji.[38]

Emoji

See also

  • Core Text

References

  1. ↑ Guzman, Angela (17 January 2018). "The Making of Apple's Emoji: How designing these tiny icons changed my life". https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee. Retrieved 13 October 2018. 
  2. ↑ "Apple Emoji List — For iPhone, iPad and macOS" (in en). https://emojipedia.org/apple/. 
  3. ↑ "Apple brings more than 70 new emoji to iPhone with iOS 12.1" (in en-US). Apple Newsroom. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/10/apple-brings-more-than-70-new-emoji-to-iphone-with-ios-12-1/. 
  4. ↑ Cipriani, Jason (2013-10-23). "How to access emoji in OS X 10.9 Mavericks". CNET. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57608984-285/how-to-access-emoji-in-os-x-10.9-mavericks/. Retrieved 2014-01-18. 
  5. ↑ "Access and Use Emoji in Mac OS X". Osxdaily.com. 2011-08-20. http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/20/emoji-mac-os-x-lion/. Retrieved 2014-01-18. 
  6. ↑ Jeff Blagdon (2013-03-04). "How emoji conquered the world". The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/3966140/how-emoji-conquered-the-world. Retrieved 2014-07-28. 
  7. ↑ de With, Sebastian. "The Origin of the Inimitable Icons.". http://blog.cocoia.com/2008/the-origin-of-the-inimitable-icons/. Retrieved 1 August 2015. 
  8. ↑ Sasser, Cabel. "Twitter post". https://twitter.com/cabel/status/627237448523714560. Retrieved 16 August 2015. 
  9. ↑ "Apple iPhone OS 2.2 Emoji List" (in en). https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/. 
  10. ↑ Broussard, Mitchel. "Today is the 10th Anniversary of Emoji on iPhone" (in en). https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/21/10th-anniversary-emoji-iphone/. 
  11. ↑ Burge, Jeremy (2018-11-21). "Who Created The Original Apple Emoji Set?" (in en). Emojipedia. https://blog.emojipedia.org/who-created-the-original-apple-emoji-set/. 
  12. ↑ Burge, Jeremy (2018-09-15). "SoftBank is now on Emojipedia" (in en). Emojipedia. https://blog.emojipedia.org/softbank-is-now-on-emojipedia/. 
  13. ↑ Hunt, Paul (2017-03-20). "What is Gender and Why Does it Matter to Emoji?" (in en). Emojipedia. https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-is-gender-and-why-does-it-matter-to-emoji/. 
  14. ↑ Bosker, Bianca (27 June 2014). "How Emoji Get Lost In Translation". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/emoji-meaning_n_5530638.html. Retrieved 15 August 2015. 
  15. ↑ "💃 Dancer Emoji" (in en). https://emojipedia.org/dancer/. 
  16. ↑ Elissa, Bain (September 2021). "WHAT NEW EMOJIS ARE AVAILABLE WITH APPLE'S IOS 15?" (in en). HITC. https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/09/21/ios-15-new-emojis/. 
  17. ↑ "Apple iOS 12.1 Emoji List" (in en). https://emojipedia.org/apple/ios-12.1/. 
  18. ↑ "Apple focuses on diversity with new emoji". The Telegraph. 9 April 2015. http://telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/11524193/Apple-focuses-on-diversity-with-new-emoji.html. Retrieved 2015-04-09. 
  19. ↑ Tan, Monica (24 February 2015). "Apple adds racially diverse emoji, and they come in five skin shades". https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/24/apple-adds-racially-diverse-emoji-and-they-come-in-five-skin-shades. Retrieved 15 August 2015. 
  20. ↑ "National flags and racial diversity: iOS 8.3 delivers multicultural emojis". recordnet.com. http://www.recordnet.com/article/ZZ/20150408/SHAREABLE/150409860. 
  21. ↑ "iOS 10.2 Emoji Changelog" (in en). Emojipedia. 2016-12-12. https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-2-emoji-changelog/. 
  22. ↑ Burge, Jeremy (2018-11-21). "Apple Emoji Turns 10" (in en). Emojipedia. https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-emoji-turns-10/. 
  23. ↑ Farokhmanesh, Megan. "Apple adds an emoji for the drunk weirdo at the bar". The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/30/18044146/apple-ios-12-1-emoji-new-woozy-face-drunk-weirdo-at-bar. 
  24. ↑ Van Lancker, Willem. "Twitter post". https://twitter.com/vanlancker/status/124277499566899200. Retrieved 23 July 2017. 
  25. ↑ Baumann, Laurent. "Twitter post". https://twitter.com/lobau/status/483637502331215873. Retrieved 15 August 2015. 
  26. ↑ Van Os, Marcel. "Twitter post". https://twitter.com/mox73/status/290732609435205633. Retrieved 15 August 2015. 
  27. ↑ "FAQ – Emoji & Dingbats". unicode.org. https://www.unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html. 
  28. ↑ "Supporting iOS 5 New Emoji Encoding". Manbolo Blog. http://blog.manbolo.com/2011/12/12/supporting-ios-5-new-emoji-encoding. Retrieved 2012-05-22. 
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Ralf Herrmann (2013-07-03). "Color Emoji in Windows 8.1—The Future of Color Fonts?". http://opentype.info/blog/2013/07/03/color-emoji-in-windows-8-1-the-future-of-color-fonts/. Retrieved 2014-07-27. 
  30. ↑ Si Daniels (2012-01-25). "Apple Color Emoji". Typographica. http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/apple-color-emoji/. Retrieved 2014-07-27. 
  31. ↑ "Unicode 8.0.0". Unicode Consortium. http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/. Retrieved 17 June 2015. 
  32. ↑ "💻 Personal Computer Emoji" (in en). https://emojipedia.org/personal-computer/. 
  33. ↑ "📰 Newspaper Emoji" (in en). https://emojipedia.org/newspaper/. 
  34. ↑ Deighan, Emma O'Neill (2015-07-17). "It's World Emoji Day, how will you celebrate?". belfastlive. https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/incoming/its-world-emoji-day-how-9680218. 
  35. ↑ "7 Emoji Facts to Help You Celebrate World Emoji Day" (in en). Time. http://time.com/4860488/world-emoji-day-facts-2017/. Retrieved 2018-06-26. 
  36. ↑ "World Emoji Day: Why It's on July 17" (in en). NBC New York. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Why-Is-July-17-World-Emoji-Day-316145711.html. 
  37. ↑ "Fonts in Use". http://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10884/apple-color-emoji. Retrieved 15 August 2015. 
  38. ↑ Sternbergh, Adam (17 November 2014). "Smile, You're Speaking EMOJI: the rapid evolution of a wordless tongue". http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html. Retrieved 15 August 2015. 

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