Raw emotions for typography.
:grimace-heart: from Emoji Kitchen
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In every environment, including ones that don’t have good emoji support or are locked down by sysadmins who hate fun, you can use the emoji search page and reference emojipedia, which is a voting member of the unicode consortium according to wikipedia, so they must be authoritative.
Generating/finding/mutating
- Jennifer Daniel, Introducing: Emoji Kitchen 😗👌💕
- Emoji kitchen browser: = 🤮 + 🥸
- getemoji, the emoji-finding website from emojipedia.
AI Emojis are pretty cute.
:koala-chemist: according to AI Emojis
Emoji wallpaper
Typing emoji
Sometimes it is hard to type or view emoji. The :emoji: syntax
allows us to refer to them via
“shortcodes” such as :roller_coaster: for 🎢.
I’m not sure what, if any, the canonical list of these shortcodes is but the emoji cheatsheet will do. The github emoji system is aligned to that, I learned via emojify. For this blog, the ugly-lookin’ and slightly divergent pandoc list was handy. One can also use emojipedia dictionary on macOS which is an OS-integrated dictionary of emoji.
Also important: sardonically rating emoji. Here are expert opinions on ants, and horses.
Ubuntu
In recent Ubuntu
emoji input is built-in
via Emoji picker (right click), although AFAICT only on system dialogues, which excludes,
e.g. the text editors and browsers where you actually need this stuff.
There is also the emoji hotkey,
defaulting to Ctrl+Shift+E which enables a slightly confusing the underdocumented ibus emoji search widget which for all that is more reliable and usable than the picker etc. However that shortcut key is annoying.
There’s also Character Map and Characters, two more-or-less interchangeable apps
to find and type characters for you.
Characters is nicer-lookin’ but has awful search, whereas
Character Map has merely bad search.
The emoji are, I think, supplied via Google’s Noto font in its emoji flavour.
Browsers
Mobile
Very built-in these days, but I’m sad that cute apps like Dango which did deep emoji learning, never got traction.
LaTeX
Weird gotcha
Fun fact: It takes reading of the spec to discover that Emoji are banned from YAML 1.1, which is an important text encoding system. We can use escape sequences, but only in double quoted strings.
So, to write the subtitle of this page for YAML 1.1, you could say
"Writing with \U0001f195\U0001f41c\U0001f41c"I think this is fixed in the more recent YAML 1.2.
However, AFAIK that means that YAML is technically not a superset of JSON, which I thought was a design criterion for YAML. Huh.
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