MANILA, Philippines - Emojis are pictograms that have become popular in social media. Users all around the globe have been using these to express whatever their emotions are. But with the current standard color of emoji, some users are requesting for different emoji palates to reflect racial diversity.
To put this issue into rest, Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that sets the standards for these pictograms finally worked on expanding the skin color options for emojis.
According to AP, the organization is planning to add five new skin colors, including black.
Emoji Are Finally Introducing Different Coloured People | http://t.co/mcJMKyFzGq pic.twitter.com/4bTeHmsCKv
— Junkee (@junkeedotcom) November 5, 2014 In addition to that, they will allow altering the colors of the preexisting emojis, by doing a long-press on their favorite face to bring up a set of skin-tone options.
This is why I love standards http://t.co/PoMzs9aQE4 in other news in the future we will all start as Simpsons pic.twitter.com/LPHrmKyASs
— Paul Ford (@ftrain) November 4, 2014 The emojis are expected on Unicode Version 8.0 launch in June 2015. Read the full proposal here.