emoji skin tone

Become vexed that you are unable to find a red-headed emoji face!

May 9, 2016

Communication, Design, Phones, UI / UX

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Background: An emoji overview: Fig 1: Current Apple emoji skin tones. Available tones vary by emoji font designer (e.g., Google, Microsoft). Emoji people were originally only available with a light skin tone. Recently, more skin tone options have been added (Fig 1). However, they are just a recoloring of the original emoji, and thus may not have realistic…