“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