During my research into vintage Japanese drawing software, I came across some devices that had built in sketch or handwritten memo functions.

Ok, if you haven’t seen this before (or even if you have), I need to warn you that Emoji Kitchen is just a little bit addict

Microsoft is making its Fluent Emoji available on Figma and GitHub.

What is black and white and read all over? Presenting the monochrome Noto Emoji font.

You might be forgiven for thinking that, in 2022, it’s possible to plop an emoji on a web page and have it “just work”.

'Unicode Unwrapped' just dropped and the most used emojis of the year are now visualized on this Frequency page.

Your favorite emojis. To scale (more or less).

Combine two emojis into one. Thousands of combinations are available.

When was the last time you went a day without using any emoji? How about a week? I went through a fun self-imposed experiment: no emoji for 2 weeks.

Why we refreshed our 1800+ emoji to support the new landscape of work.

Quick, how many bytes make up the following line? No tricks, I promise.

Tens of millions of broadsides were printed from the very earliest days of printing.

On Ada Lovelace Day we celebrate the work of women in STEM. Jenny Brennan writes about how she designed a hashflag for the occasion.

[Insert sob emoji here.]

Kneeling is more complicated than you’d think.

For anyone who needs a salty way to express their current struggles.

Feature Gifs, memes, and emoji have quickly become a lingua franca. But what do they say about our collective need to be heard?

Empty toilet paper rolls and a 'closed' sign.

Lea Verou had a dang genius idea to use an emoji as a favicon.

O’Plérou Grebet designed one new emoji every day for a year. They communicate the dynamism of his West African heritage.