It happened this past week ... a huge new honor for those tiny cell phone pictographs. New York’s Museum of Modern Art announced Wednesday it has acquired the original 176 emoji, first introduced by ...

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . The inaugural event, taking place over three days, was the brainchild of Jennifer 8.

As a typeface designer for Adobe, Paul Hunt spends most of his time creating the building blocks of written language. Fonts communicate more than just the words on the page; the way they arc, curve, ...

Facebook’s new emoji include skin tone variants, which iOS already has and which is coming to Android soon. There will also be more female and gender-agnostic options for existing emoji, making this ...

Betty Boop has been around since the '30s, but she's still hip. In honor of World Emoji Day on Sunday, the sexy cartoon character is getting her first official emoji, courtesy of Pepsi. Boop's ...

Good news for anyone who has sent a text message in the last year: Emojis now have a starring role in their own movie. “When you’re trying to make an animated movie, the best thing is to find that ...

Technology company develops system to get rid of numerical pin codes. Intelligent Environments has launched the world’s first emoji-only passcode in the UK. Intelligent Environments/Vimeo — -- ...

The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . Linguists, emoji designers from tech powerhouses like Google and officials from the ...