25 skin tone handshake emoji options are coming in 2022
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May 01 2021 at 5:27 PM GMT
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- After years of texting highlighter-yellow handshakes to our friends, multi-skin toned handshake emoji are coming to our phones in 2022.
- The Unicode Consortium, which — among other things — sets the standard for how text (emojis included) appears in modern software, has strived to create more inclusive emoji in recent releases.
- The most current example is interracial couples as part of the new iOS 14.5 emoji.
- While emoji appear as tiny icons, they require a massive amount of effort from conception to completion — and the handshakes involved even more work.
- Google's blog post about how the multi-skin toned handshake emoji was years in the making is indicative of that journey.
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- Published May 1, 2021 5:27 PM GMT