Thursday, April 23, 2020

ClipEmoji.com now supports skin tones

ClipEmoji.com now supports your choice of skin tone! Just select a tone from the dropdown in the page footer, and the selected tone will be applied to all supported emoji.

In the course of developing this update, I was admittedly surprised to realize that the basic "facial expression" emoji -- πŸ˜„, πŸ˜‚, πŸ€”, and so forth -- aren't toneable! The emoji for which tone support has been added by the Unicode Consortium -- the ones in this list -- are mostly the "hand" emoji (e.g. πŸ‘‹πŸΎ, πŸ‘πŸΌ, πŸ™ŒπŸΏ), plus the ones that depict people's activities or appearances (e.g. πŸ‘©πŸ½‍🦳, πŸ‘¨πŸ»‍🏫, πŸ„πŸ½‍♀️).

The only emoji not supported by ClipEmoji yet are the three "holding hands" emoji (πŸ‘«, πŸ‘­, πŸ‘¬), where the two people depicted have different skin tones. The main thing to be figured out there is an elegant UI to apply tones to that emoji, that doesn't "get in the way" of the other thousands of emoji!

The ClipEmoji site will remember your selection for future visits to the site, too (via a cookie).

I also added an About page to ClipEmoji.com, so check that out if you're in the mood for even more ClipEmoji-related reading.

Enjoy the updated ClipEmoji.com! πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ‘πŸ½πŸ‘πŸΎπŸ‘πŸΏ

Sunday, April 05, 2020

ClipEmoji.com updated with 2020 v13 Unicode emoji set

I've updated ClipEmoji.com with the new 2020 v13 Unicode emoji set. This is a new set of emoji, such as "smiling face with tear" (πŸ₯²), that will be added to various platforms -- iOS / MacOS, Android phones, Windows, and so forth -- later this year.

(So if you're reading this post just after it was published, you most likely cannot see that above emoji character quite yet! πŸ˜‚ ClipEmoji is now ready to go, though, as soon as support does get added to your platform.)

ClipEmoji.com is a simple and lightweight web page that's designed in particular for desktop and laptop computers -- where the keyboard (obviously) doesn't include emoji characters -- to make it easy to get a particular emoji that you want to use in some message or text you're composing onto your clipboard, so that you can paste it into the text you're composing.