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New Emoji To Debut This Summer
Emojipedia, the online directory for every emoji existing today, has recently published a complete list of mock up images for the 69 new graphics and symbols that are set to land on mobile devices some time in June of this year. To be perfectly clear about everything, the official designs of pictograms included in Emoji 5.0 will still undergo a finalization process, which means that the proposed designs may still change along the way. But the mock ups should give mobile users a general idea of what the next generation emoji will look like and be ready to use them for very specific occasions.
The new additions will continue to diversify the current roster of emoji for faces and people. Some of the new candidates include a woman in headscarf image, and new gender inclusive faces, as well as a breast feeding lady. All of these will come with different skin tone versions. There will also be new emoji for bearded men, a face wearing a monocle, a face throwing up, and a face whose mouth is covered with “&$!#%” which denotes swearing.
Fans of fantasy will be delighted to know that Emoji 5.0 will come with new emoji for various supernatural or mythical characters. Male and female zombies should become very popular, as well as those representing vampires, wizards and witches, genies, elves, fairies, mermaids (and mermen), and even aliens.
As expected, images for food and objects will continue to be diverse, with new options for sandwich, pie, coconut, fortune cookies, chopsticks, and various clothing items that include gloves and socks. New animals run from dinosaurs (a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a long necked Sauropod) to hedgehogs, zebras to giraffes, and even crickets. As mentioned earlier, Emoji 5.0 will be made available starting in June this year.
It needs to reiterated that those presented by Emojipedia are far from being the finalized versions. And while the website has mocked up the new proposed pictograms in the style of iOS emoji, the final ones that will be appearing later this year may differ in terms of rendering. Back in June of last year, it was reported that more than 70 emoji were granted approval by the Unicode Consortium, and these emoji were rolled out together with iOS 10.
In a post last month, we featured a survey that revealed how today’s users still want more emoji options. While Emoji 5.0 will allow for some expansion, the modern consumer will always need new ones depending on trends and recent events.
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