Notices



Google Noto Emoji channels nostalgia in more than one way

AVN News Feed

Post New ThreadReply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 05-02-2022, 09:47 AM
phillynewsnow's Avatar
phillynewsnow phillynewsnow is offline   Thread Starter  
Site Moderator - Staff

 
Join Date: October 11th, 2009
Posts: 4,640
Thanks: 0
Thanked 668 Times in 568 Posts
Downloads: 0
Uploads: 0


View phillynewsnow's Profile   Edit Options Edit Profile Picture View phillynewsnow's Photo Album Add phillynewsnow's to Your Contacts Show Groups Edit Avatar Subscribed Threads Private Messages
Google Noto Emoji channels nostalgia in more than one way

Google Noto Emoji channels nostalgia in more than one way



Google has released a new emoji font pack that attempts to scale things back. The inspiration harks back to a simpler time when the world of communication wasn’t as complex and offered a total of only 176 emojis. This is quite a contrast compared to now, with over 3,633 emoji in the Unicode Standard, as of September 2021. To make this a reality, Google had to take its Noto Emoji Color fonts and strip away the colors. Doing so created new problems that the team had to overcome. This is how Noto Emoji was born.



Taking an existing and detailed emoji set and reducing it to its bare lines is no easy task. The team at Google had to take many things into consideration when doing so. For example, how to properly convert the flags of all the represented countries. With the lack of colors, the new stripped-down philosophy posed a problem. The team executed a clever workaround by assigning each country flag with its corresponding ISO code.

Google couldn’t find a way to retain the current human character designs, so they took a literal look back and decided to re-introduce its blob emoji that made its debut in 2013. It was still no easy task to convert them into their monochrome counterparts despite the conversion. But what about the oversimplification of some of the more detailed emojis? Google explains that:
By removing as much detail as possible, emoji could be more flexible, representing the idea of something instead of specifically what is in front of you (that ? is what your camera is for )

Despite scaling back the look, the font still retains the niceties of modern technology, with users being able to adjust the color, support for light and dark mode, and the ability to drive impact by displaying it in a light or bold format. If interested, you can download the font and take a look at over 3,000 beautiful and simplified emojis.

Source: Google


The post Google Noto Emoji channels nostalgia in more than one way appeared first on XDA.



More...
Reply With Quote
Post New ThreadReply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Google Messages will soon let you react using any emoji phillynewsnow AVN News Feed 0 11-24-2022 09:35 AM
[NEWS] Emoji remarks make Google Docs editing a bit more friendly phillynewsnow Random Community Topics 0 04-06-2022 09:08 AM
Google Docs will soon let you add emoji reactions to documents phillynewsnow Random Community Topics 0 04-06-2022 09:08 AM
YouTube starts testing timed emoji reactions on some channels phillynewsnow Random Community Topics 0 03-29-2022 10:12 AM
[NEW] Emoji Icons v1 ICEM/\N Iphone Applications 0 09-08-2009 07:40 PM


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:24 PM.

Layout Options | Width: Fixed
Contact Us - SPJ Bulletin - Archive - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service - Top