There must be a Unicode geek here who can explain why the heart emojis include grey, pink, and light blue variants, but the circles and squares don’t?

Kate Morley

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Emily_S

@katemorley Oooh interesting. @Edent something you might know?

Robb Knight

@katemorley The proposals for the extra ones in 2022 (pink, light blue, grey) didn't include proposals for the circles or squares which now you put them all together like that seems like a grave injustice. Source: https://emojipedia.org/unicode-15.0

Terence Eden

@emily_s @katemorley
Existing Emoji compatibility basically.
Without looking through all the docs, I suspect that the coloured circles already existed in Japanese phones - so were encoded "as-is".

The hearts are more modern - https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21075-heart-emoji-coverage.pdf

Mage 🏳️‍🌈 🚏

@katemorley We need to tackle the color gap in circle and square emoji

Sugar, Spite, & Caffeine

@katemorley i dont have a productive answer for you

but omg you made little peoples! theyre so cute!

luca

@katemorley Love is overrated.

Trammell Hudson

@katemorley unfortunately the hearts look like tofu to me

Richard

@katemorley@hachyderm.io Characters are added when somebody asks nicely, they only asked for pink/gray/light blue hearts, and nobody thought to add other shapes.

Digging around a bit, I've already found 6 different Unicode versions adding coloured hearts:

️ added in 1.1
6.0
9.0
🧡 10.0
🤎 12.0
🩷 15.0

Totally well-organized

muzzle

@th @katemorley

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@katemorley
Easy fix.

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acb

@katemorley Perhaps they could solve this by adding colour combining characters and deprecating the colour-specific codepoints for shapes? For simple shapes, they could be composited algorithmically and new colours added as needed.

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:

@katemorley @Tattooed_Mummy Because the Unicode Consortium is mean when it comes to emojis

cc: @AccordionBruce