😂Session 5: Emoji

What are Emoji? 🤔

While Internet users of the 90's sent one another emoticons like ;) and :D from ASCII characters [1], today's familiar icons were born out of a 1999 set by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita, who designed a set of 176 pictograms for NTT Docomo. The images were 12 x 12 pixels, designed for the early mobile phones and pagers [2]. The name "emoji" comes from the Japanese e (絵), meaning picture, plus moji (文字), meaning character. Emoji use spread around the world from 2010 after mobile OS developers added them to their software [3]. Fun facts:

There used to be an emoji for the 109 Building in Shibuya https://emojipedia.org/shibuya/
World Emoji Day is July 17 https://worldemojiday.com/
Emoji look different across various devices

Check out the Unicode: Emoji, Symbols, and More page for elements you can use in your projects

Goal

Let's build something using Emoji! 😊

Where to start 👇

Since the session is brief, we recommend either preparing something in advance, or hacking on an existing piece of code to make it your own. Here are some ideas: