Periodically, both Google and other companies release and adopt new emojithat in the end we ended up using in Spain, sending them through platforms like WhatsApp. These changes can take weeks or even months, so announcements are made well in advance. This is what happened with Google, who has announced the addition of a new batch of animated emojis for Android.
It does so under Unicode 15.0the new Unicode standard of Unicode Consortium which has been approved after almost a whole year in development. This basic one includes up to 21 new emojis, including wings, shaky faces, high five, among many others.
However, as Google itself explains, in addition to this, substantial improvements have been added to these emojis. they arrive animated emojis, Animated versions of the current emojis that, as if that weren’t enough, now receive new color font support. This opens the possibility that customize the colors of the emojis.
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The complete list of new emojis is only a part of the new news that these receive in the face of the Google update. The list includes a trembling face, a light blue heart, a gray heart, a pink heart, a hand that pushes to the right, to the left (to form a ‘high 50’) or a moose face.
But there is more. A donkey, a wing, a goose, a jellyfish, ginger, hyacinth, a hand fan, a pea pod, a Wifi symbol, some maracas, a flute and a khanda. Of course, these new emojis, at least in the case of the hands, are compatible with the 5 skin tones that are included in Unicode 15.0, betting on inclusivity.
Emojis in monochrome mode.
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Google goes further. In addition to these 21 emojis, enter monochrome versions of these emojis, as well as the animated versions. This is possible thanks to the Noto Emoji font, which supports the new Unicode 15.0 emojis. In this way, in the future months Google should support these animated emojis on Android, WhatsApp and the rest of the instant messaging applications, constituting more than 220.
Finally, there is the support of the COLRv1 source format. This is a feature from android 13, the latest version of the operating system that Google is launching this year for its Pixels and other Android devices. The emojis are converted into a series of vector drawings, opening up the possibility that their colors can be customized.In this linkyou will be able to see how you can change all the parts of an emoji, in this case, a goose as an example.
Color changed emojis.
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When will these news arrive? The truth is that both the arrival of these new emojis and the rest of the updates could be delayed until the end of this year or failing that. until early next year. The rest of the firms such as Meta or Apple will have to include these new emojis in their systems and applications.
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