14 DAY TRIAL // Let’s face it. Everyone uses emojis these days, and they have become an essential part of pretty much every conversation. Users know it, tech companies know it too, so it’s no surprise that there’s such a growing interest in improving them in the coming updates.
Today, EmojiPedia published a shortlist of 51 new emojis that are supposed to be included in Unicode 10, which should go live in mid-2017 and then adopted by the majority of companies, including here the likes of Apple, Google, and Microsoft (that will make them available on their devices).
First and foremost, it’s worth mentioning that the new emoji pack includes faces that you haven’t seen before, such as a giraffe, pretzel, vampire, bearded man, soda/milkshake, breastfeeding, a "shhh" face, pie, starry-eyed face, woman in hijab and zebra, as the aforementioned source notes. The screenshots you see here show only proposed designs, so they could change before they go live.
No head banging against the wall. Yet.
It goes without saying that faces are the most popular emojis at the moment, but the organization says that food types are also growing, and this is one of the reasons they’re working to also introduce broccoli, coconut, and sandwich.
“Just as the baby emoji is not currently gendered, additions for child, adult, and older adult are on this list as non-gendered equivalents of the boy/girl, man/woman and older man/older woman,” they add.
Unicode 10 will also include a dinosaur emoji, and at this point there are two designs that are being looked into. And last but not least, the new emoji pack will include some new activities as well, such as sauna, rock climbing, and yoga.
Unfortunately for those who expected to see an almond emoji, or leafy greens, a face with lightbulb or head banging against the wall, that’s not going to happen this time because they didn’t make it on the proposed list.
