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Anyone can create a new emoji. Here’s an animated guide to doing it right.
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7:17Now PlayingIt might be tempting to assume that new emoji are flown in by stork, handed down from high atop a mountain or mined in caves below the Silicon Valley giants’ headquarters. The truth is even more surprisingAnyone can propose a new emoji. Yes, even you. Mark Bramhill, an audio producer and host of the podcast “Welcome to Macintosh,” discovered this fact in the middle of 2016 and his mind immediately went wild with the possibilities. Yet at the time, the road from idea to emoji was not wellmapped. Bramhill soon realized that all paths led to the littleknown global language standards organization that somehow found itself tasked with regulating emojithe Unicode Consortium. With this knowledge, Mark began an unusual journey to bring his “person meditating” emoji onto phones all over the world. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube
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