Also we have some emojis. We can make it into WhatsApp sticker packs which is easy.
We have no emojis, Haiku has no own fonts. We just use Noto Emoji
Some emoji icons exists in hvif-store, but only 24. Quite limited
A Haiku-style emoji pack would be a good idea,actually.
But it would be a lot of work,as there are currently 3953 emojis in the Unicode standard and the number keeps growing.
I don’t see how, we don’t support colored emojies, the effort would be huge and for very little gain. We already have competent fonts we can use
That’s a little inaccurate.
We don’t support colored emojis in native application just yet.
They display perfectly fine in ported Qt and GTK applications,and I’m sure it’s only a matter of time that someone implements support for native applications,too.
I know it’s a matter of personal taste,but I don’t like the design of the Noto emojis that much.
For web-based projects,I like to use EmojiTwo or twemoji,both now being discontinued and maybe also not a great fit for Haikus design.
You can see a large selection of different emoji designs here:
Unfortunately most of them are proprietary licensed for use only in the companies own products,and many of them are also discontinued.
In my opinion,a good fit for Haikus icon design would be 3D icons with gradients,Samsungs emojis would be my first choice,then Apples,Huaweis,Facebooks or LGs,but then again we can’t legally use them.
Designing a similar emoji set and releasing it under a open-source license would make another unique design decision for Haiku that makes it stick out from the masses.
I’d love to see that happening,but I’m a awful designer,so I’m not the one to do it.
Considering that colored fonts are mostly just inline raster images that does not seem desireable at all. We support emoji witj font weights and recolorable and scalable… in a sense we are further than other OSes that inline pngs in text, I see no reason to reverse that
At this moment my goal is turning Haiku icons into popular nostalgia products, to provide more funding for the development. We seems not capable to systematically a whole emoji pack for now.
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I know very well that we don’t have the capacities to make 3953 emoji icons,just dreaming that it would be nice if we had.
However, assigning corresponding unicode to some of the emojis is a good idea. Some objects emojis are enough for this