The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria. Scores of ...

We’ve all been there. On Android or Gchat or Gmail, you try to send a crying emoji, or a grin. Basic stuff, really. But when you click the icon, you’re suddenly reminded that Google’s emoji are ...

Finland, land of the midnight sun, saunas, black metal, and phones that were once cool, is now also the land of emoji. The Nordic country is the first in the world to release a set of ...

Jennifer Daniel, designer at Google, thinks about this deep irony at the heart of visual language all the time. She traces it back to the age-old problem with the male bathroom symbol. “That person ...

Emoji on Android has changed a lot over the years, and with the coming release of Android 12, Google is tweaking the design yet again. This time around, the company is tweaking hundreds of emojis with ...

Before the colourful emoji we use as shorthand and punctuation appear on our keyboards, there's a surprisingly complex bureaucratic design and selection process to go through You can't deny the ...

Listen, I don't need to tell you that people have a lot of feelings about breakfast food. Especially when it comes to bagels. When Apple first unveiled the design of its forthcoming bagel emoji, there ...

You can stop tweeting #SadBagel now. Apple has released a new version of its bagel emoji in the latest update to its smartphone software, quelling some public outrage ...

Why you may not want to rely on emoji to send an entire message. — -- Not all emoji are created equal, especially if you're messaging a friend with a different kind of phone. The Unicode ...

It was banished after Apple reportedly voiced concern. — -- There's an emoji for almost everything now -- from robots to tacos to lollipops -- but the one emoji that recently got the cut: a rifle ...