Real Emoji

A proposal for 35 new emoji that go beyond the hugs and kisses of the standard emoji set. See the Real Emoji website for more information.

Download and installation

Real Emoji are available as:

• Telegram stickers: download
• font file: download and installation instructions

Development

Building the font file

1. Install the following dependencies:

   • make
   • librsvg
   • nototools (available in Arch Linux User Repository)
   • optipng
   • pngquant
   • svgo

2. Build the scfbuild Docker image:

   cd twemoji-color-font/scfbuild && make
   

3. Build the font file:

   make font
   

If everything succeeds, you will find the TTF file in the static/fonts/ directory.

Building the website

1. Install the following dependencies:

   • hugo
   • inkscape
   • optipng
   • webify (available in Arch Linux User Repository)
   • woff2

2. Build the static website and start a local web server:

   make serve
   

Acknowledgements

The build system is based on eosrei/twemoji-color-font: Twitter Unicode 12 emoji color SVGinOT font for Linux/MacOS/Windows.

The standard emojis are copied from the Twemoji font by Twitter licensed under CC-BY.

The design of Real Emoji is based on Twitter Emoji (Twemoji). The design of the fetus emoji is based on a photo by the National Museum of Health and Medicine available at Wikipedia. The design of the moralizing emoji is based on a woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld available at Wikipedia. The design of the Svíčková na smetaně emoji is based on a photo by Matyáš Havel available at Wikipedia. The color of the ugliness emoji is Pantone 448C, a color voted the ugliest colour in the world.

Contributing

Feel free to remix this project.

The code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

The graphics (SVG images) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.