The range of emojis available to us will only grow in the coming years. Are you already looking forward to the samba balls this fall?This brings us back to the Unicode Consortium, the consortium that oversees "our" emojis. To understand how the consortium works, it's helpful to understand its structure. The Unicode Consortium is a foundation that,

Unicode therefore provided Kurita's basic set of 180 emojis with unicodes so they could be added to smartphone and computer keyboards worldwide. This is also why, in the early days, the emoji set primarily included elements from Japanese culture, such as a bowl of noodles, sushi, and Japanese characters. Another important lesson from this brief his

This week it was announced that a new set is in the works for next fall. Whether they'll all make it to our keyboards remains to be seen, but the drawing board definitely includes pushing hands, ginger root, and the jellyfish.Every day, we send each other millions of emojis worldwide, our social media is overflowing with them, and the annual releas