How do you choose which emoji skin tone to use? This week on Why’d You Push That Button, Vox’s Kaitlyn Tiffany and I discuss the five emoji skin tones (not counting the default gold option ...

Choosing the skin tone of an emoji is more complex than we might think Using skin tone emojis is a seemingly easy choice that in reality can be fraught. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with writer and ...

But your trepidation about which emoji skin tone to use has evidently weighed on many white people's minds since 2015, when the Unicode Consortium—the mysterious organization that sets standards ...

Is the yellow emoji really neutral? A 2018 study published by the University of Edinburgh looked at the use of different skin tone emojis — what it referred to as "modified" emojis — on ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

“If skin tone support were added to this emoji right now, it would mean both people have to share a skin tone, as the modifier would apply to the whole emoji including both hands.” TNW ...

Gmail’s new emoji picker on the web is getting a long overdue upgrade. You’ll be to pick skin tones and gender preferences thanks to a new arrow next to certain emoji.

More skin tone variations are coming to the world of Emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which selects new character variants each year, gave smartphone users a mini-update on Friday, unveiling the ...

When they were first launched in 2015, emoji skin tones corrected an obvious wrong.Previously, if a black man or a Latino woman wanted to text a friend the thumbs-up emoji on an iPhone, a white ...

Today, selecting a different skin tone – by long-pressing – will result in Gboard making your choice the default emoji that appears in the grid. However, this is set on a per-character basis.

Using the wrong emoji at work can shift the meaning of your message. Staying curious about tone and generational preferences ...

Right now, if you’re trying to use a pointe shoe emoji, there’s only one option for users—and that’s the “European Pink.”But Black ballerina Misty Copeland is trying to change that ...