Today Google has officially unveiled its full-color designs for Unicode’s latest approved emojis, which include a smiley face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint.
Google has officially unveiled its full-color designs for today’s Emoji 16.0 recommendations, which include a face with bags under its eyes, a paint splatter, and a human fingerprint.
There are a total of eight new emojis in today’s Google release:
These new emojis have been uploaded to the Noto Color Emoji’s Google Fonts page.
They have yet to be uploaded to Google’s Noto Color Emoji Github page or their Gstatic servers, though they are expected to do so in the near future.
This release coincides with today’s formal approval of Unicode’s Emoji 16.0 recommendations, from which all these new emojis are drawn.
Today’s emoji update is expected to be released progressively across different Google platforms such as Chrome OS, Gmail, YouTube, and various Android devices over the coming days, weeks, and months.
Google has also released support for Emoji 16.0 within Noto Color Emoji’s minimalistic companion font – Noto Emoji.
Note that the Noto Emoji font does not support distinct designs for skin tone modifier sequences and many gender-specifying ZWJ sequences. Instead, it displays the same design as the base neutral emoji: either a blob or a humanoid silhouette.
💻 Release
As discussed above, these new emoji designs for Emoji 16.0 have been released via Google’s Noto Emoji Github page, meaning they are likely considered final and almost certainly not undergo further revisions before release.
These new emojis are expected to be released progressively across different Google platforms such as Chrome OS, Gmail, YouTube, and various Android devices over the coming weeks, and months.
In the meantime, you can download the font files for both Noto Color Emoji and Noto Emoji via their respective Google Fonts pages.