“Period after emojis? That's, like, serial killer weird.”— Mark Stasenko, Sam Ecklund, Griffin Gluck, imdb.com
“Every time I use an emoji I'm slightly terrified there's some meaning behind it that I'm totally unaware of.”— Susan Fowler, twitter.com
“You can use emojis as color overlay filters on your snaps. Simply place the emoji over the snap and blow it up. The emoji’s edge will create a colorful filter.”— Minou Clark, Kyli Singh, huffingtonpost.com
“You can send Bitmoji cartoon in chat by connecting your Bitmoji account.”— Elyse Betters, pocket-lint.com
“Punycode is just a way to represent complex characters—such as emoji, letters with accents, and Asian characters—using the basic set of Latin characters which are allowed by the Domain Name System. It's normally used to display Asian characters and accented letters, but it can be used to represent e…”— Josh Farrant, motherboard.vice.com
“As a type designer I sort of see this as if everyone in the world decided in 2010 that Helvetica is going to be the only acceptable rendering of the alphabet. The Apple emoji style is one choice, not the only choice.”— Colin M. Ford, Colin M. Ford, medium.com
“I guess if you draw one smiley face, you get the other smiley faces, but a lot of emojis don’t follow each other as formally as type does quite yet. The main suggestion I have is to choose a couple essential emojis from each set to develop a style.”— TypeThursday, Colin M. Ford, medium.com
“You want to know what are the norms so you don’t design confusion. But then there’s some beautiful emojis that you’re free to do whatever you want. For instance, like the alien emoji. If you look across all of the sets that it exists in, there’s a wonderful, weird variety of them.”— TypeThursday, Colin M. Ford, medium.com
“Today emoji are used and loved by a lot of people. They’re internationally successful for the same reasons they were successful in Japan in the late 90’s and early 00’s—in addition to being useful shortcuts for nouns for everything from “Partly Sunny” to “Gas Station”, they act as emotional intermed…”— Colin M. Ford, Colin M. Ford, medium.com