The Next Batch Of Emoji Includes Bigfoot

Today is World Emoji Day, and nan Unicode Consortium is sharing a preview of immoderate of nan caller emoji that should deed your devices early adjacent twelvemonth arsenic portion of Unicode 17.0. If you inquire me, it’s a promising batch, particularly nan Bigfoot emoji — sorry, “hairy creature.”

The database includes these emoji, according to nan Consortium:

• Apple core
• Ballet dancers
• Distorted Face
• Fight cloud
• Hairy creature
• Orca
• Treasure chest
• Trombone

I tin deliberation of immoderate awesome uses of each of them – I consciousness for illustration this is going to beryllium a celebrated set. They’ll “likely” show up connected devices successful nan outpouring of 2026, Unicode’s Erik Thompson says successful an email. Yes, that’s a agelong ways away, but nan process of making an emoji is really beautiful involved, as I’ve written about.

As portion of World Emoji Day, Apple has besides launched a caller emoji connection game that’s disposable pinch an Apple News Plus subscription. And Emojipedia has relaunched nan EmojiTracker.com website to way real-time emoji use.