But as emoji with skin tones spread to Twitter, Facebook, and workplace chat applications like Slack, I noticed something I hadn’t expected: While I saw plenty of and , almost no one I knew used ...

For more than a year, the worldwide campaign by winemakers to bring justice to the world by bringing a white-wine emoji to our keyboards has been raging. Well, at least smoldering. Related ...

Sonoma winery Kendall-Jackson launches a formal White Wine Emoji campaign ahead of their presentation to the Unicode Technical Committee in spring 2019.

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

Racial diversity amongst our emoji has been an issue for a while, especially now that more and more of our teens are regressing into a pictogram-only ...