5, 4 And of course, Emoji 4.0’s headline act was to introduce a comprehensive set of professions available in both male and female versions, but it also brought a host of ZWJ-based single-parent families, too ( 👩👶👧). 4) Emoji’s long-serving nuclear family (👪) was joined by a variety of same-sex families (such as ‘👨👨👦’ and ‘👩👩👧👦’) in Emoji 2.0 and Emoji 3.0. At a meeting of ISO/IEC members in Tokyo in 2009, as emoji’s future as a part of Unicode was being hashed out, it was decided that the Japanese mobile networks’ existing MAN AND WOMAN HOLDING HANDS symbol (👫) should be accompanied by same-sex equivalents (👬, 👭). To their credit, both Unicode and its partner organisation, the abominably-named ISO/IEC JTC/SC2/WG2, † had been chipping away at emoji’s gender biases since taking up the reins in the late 2000s. 2 POLICE OFFICER (👮) implicitly meant “policeman” a DANCER (💃) was most likely to be a woman a FAMILY (👪) consisted of a man, a woman and a child and so on. As Rachel Been, Nichole Bleuel, Agustin Fonts and Mark Davis had discovered as they added female professions to Emoji 4.0, emoji vendors tended to interpret “gender-neutral” as meaning “along conventional gender lines”. In practise, things were not so clear cut. Unicode Technical Standard #51 - the document the rest of the world knows as Emoji 1.0, Emoji 2.0, and so on - had from its very first edition made a point of listing the few emoji that did have a specific gender * before making it clear that “All other emoji representing people should be depicted in a gender-neutral way” 1 That was the theory, anyway.
Pencil emoji 1.0 free#
The Unicode Consortium had always meant for emoji to be free of gendered representation, at least as far as was reasonably practicable. But, as is often the way with emoji specifically, and with Unicode in general, things were a little more complicated than they seemed. Each one was intended to provide a gender-neutral alternative to its gendered counterparts: BOY (👦) or GIRL (👧), MAN (👨) or WOMAN (👩), and OLD MAN (👴) or OLD WOMAN (👵). 1įor all its attendant fanfare, Emoji 5.0 added only three new emoji in the service of gender inclusivity: CHILD (🧒), PERSON (🧑), and OLDER PERSON (🧓). Now, in May 2017, Emoji 5.0 added the concept of gender-neutral emoji.
Pencil emoji 1.0 skin#
Emoji season has come to be defined by the major theme of the accompanying emoji update: 2015’s Emoji 1.0 added skin tone support, while 2016’s Emoji 4.0 brought a more equitable treatment of male and female emoji. In doing so it created the phenomenon of “emoji season”, in which commentators pick apart the new emoji that will soon arrive on smartphones and computers and then go back to their usual business. Start at PART 1, continue to PART 9 or view ALL POSTS in the series.Īs we saw last time, Emoji 4.0 cemented the Unicode Consortium’s practice of annual emoji updates.
Pencil emoji 1.0 series#
This is the eighth in a series of thirteen posts on Emoji (😂).
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