While arachnophobes might say there is definitely one too many arthropods in the emoji library, their digital diversity pales in comparison to the 1,302,809 described species currently found on Earth.

However, perhaps with 18.2 later in the year, or 18.3 or 18.4 early next year we’ll finally get our hands on the exhausted emoji we all deserve. For reference, iOS 17.4 was the release that ...

Illustrating the power of emoji 06:14. An emoji that speaks for the tired masses is coming to little screens soon. One of eight new emoji set to debut late this year and into the next, an ...

Other new emoji include a shovel, a beet and a splatter. And there’s one more, but intriguingly, it doesn’t have a sample image just yet. It’s a flag for Sark, an island in the Channel ...

Also of note, new male and female rockstar emoji are also included in the proposal. You’ll find images of all 13 new emoji below, as seen in the proposal documentation .

It’s no small task to open-source each of Microsoft’s 1,538 emoji, Friedman wrote. “Similar to how typeface sets include bold, italic, and regular styles, emoji must exist as a SVG, PNG, and ...

While Microsoft released its emoji in Windows 11 last year and 3D versions in Microsoft Teams in February, the company hadn’t originally planned to open source its work. “Initially we were ...