Choosing a skin tone emoji can open a complex conversation about race and identity for some. Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino.

World Emoji Day started in 2014. It's celebrated every year on July 17 because that's the date shown on the calendar emoji .

She submitted women’s clothing emoji to Unicode in 2017 and 2019 to offer alternatives to sexualized stereotypes, such as high-heel emoji that were once the only option to depict women’s shoes.

Using skin tone emojis is a seemingly easy choice that in reality can be fraught. NPR's Asma Khalid talks with writer and researcher Zara Rahman about the complexities behind the selection.

These emoji were supposed to be released in 2021, but due to COVID they've been pushed back to 2022. Regardless, these 25 combinations will be a part of Emoji 14.0.

The same goes for the handshake emoji. “ At this stage skin tone support for the handshake emoji is drafted for Emoji 14.0 meaning it could be on phones in 2021-2022,” Burge explains.

The Emoji 13.1 update will bring 217 new character sequences. Of those, 210 are skin tone changes while the other seven are new animated characters.

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.

Facebook has rolled out 125 new family emoji, expanding the default yellow skin tone to include light, medium, and darker tones, and more family combinations. Though the rollout enables users to ...

Slack will soon groups emoji reactions of different skin tones into one big group reaction. This small change is a huge boon for inclusivity. Slack says it’s rolling out to everyone now.

On April 30, 2021, several tech news outlets reported that "a multi-skin toned handshake emoji is coming in 2022." This assertion is true. The news was announced by Google in a blog post published ...

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday showed off 236 draft candidates for Emoji 12.0, which should make its way onto Apple platforms sometime in 2019 with iOS 13 and macOS 10.15.