Find a list of over 1800 emojis that you can use with a simple copy/paste. They are compatible with all modern operating systems (iOS iPhone, Android, Windows, ...).
Emojis / Smileys
Find a list of over 1800 emojis that you can use with a simple copy/paste. They are compatible with all modern operating systems (iOS iPhone, Android, Windows, ...).
These emojis can help you to make your profiles on social networks like facebook, twitter and LinkedInor Discord. They can enrich your subjects and bodies with emails as on outlook and gmail. It is also possible to use them on your websitesdirectly in your pages or in your markers <title>
and your meta descriptions to see them appear in Google search results.
If your computer is running the Windows operating system, you can use the keyboard shortcut โ Windows and ; (hold down the Windows key and press the semicolon key) to bring up the virtual keyboard of emojis.
If you are using an Apple Mac with a Mac OS system, you can use the keyboard shortcut ^ Control + โ Command + Spacebar to open the virtual keyboard which will allow you to retrieve a virtual keyboard of emojis and special characters.
When using an app that allows you to edit text, use the menu at the top of the screen: Edit > Emoji and symbols to find the emoji and special character editor.
The Internet has dramatically changed the way we communicate. Because body language and verbal tone are not translated in our text messages or emails, we have developed other methods to convey nuanced meaning. The most significant change to our online style has been the addition of two new age hieroglyphic languages: Emojis and Smileys.
Emoji and smiley faces are emotional characters that represent the first language born of the digital world, designed to add an emotional touch to an otherwise flat text. Emojis have been popular since they first appeared on Japanese mobile phones in the late 1990s.
The development of emoji and smiley faces was preceded by textual emoticons, as well as graphic representations, inside and outside Japan in the 1990s. There were emoticons that were used in most chat rooms connected at that time, for example :-) and :-( . These primitive representations would serve as the basis for the emoji we know today on our smartphones.
The first Emoji were invented in 1999 by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita who worked with the developers of DoCoMo's "i-mode" mobile Internet platform in Japan.
The latter wanted to design an attractive interface to convey information in a simple way, for example, an icon to display weather forecasts rather than writing "cloudy".
Kurita therefore drew a set of 12 by 12 pixel images that could be selected from a keyboard like grid in the interface and then sent to mobile phones as their own characters. Kurita's 176 emoticons, are privileged symbols on faces, as the objective was to find new ways to express information. There were icons to show the weather (sun, clouds, umbrella, snowman), traffic (car, tram, plane, boat), technology (landline, mobile phone, television).
Emoji and smiley faces quickly became popular in Japan as rival mobile companies copied the idea of DOCOMO (NTT DoCoMo). As mobile computing continued to explode in the mid-2000s, companies outside of Japan, such as Apple and Android, had the opportunity to integrate Emoji and smiley on their platforms' keyboards.
In 2007, a team of software developers at Google decided to lead the charge, requesting that emoticons be recognized by the Unicode Consortium, a private organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard for maintaining text standards across multiple computers. Unicode finally decided to index emoji. This was the beginning of the legitimization of emoji as a form of communication. In other words, emoji and smiley had become too popular to be ignored.
The blessing of the Unicode Consortium was not only a way to maintain standards for the existing lexicon, but a standard that will guide the evolution of emojis. Indeed, every year new emojis are proposed and some are selected to be part of the emojis lexicon.
If you want to know more about emoji, I suggest you read The WIRED Guide to Emoji.