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emojione-color-font

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-05-24 18:31:02 UTC to 2016-12-05 03:14:25 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 232016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 292016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-09-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-09-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-11-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-11-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 5

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 232016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC101
May 302016-05-30 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 62016-06-06 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 132016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 202016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 272016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 42016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 112016-07-11 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 182016-07-18 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 252016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 12016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 82016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 152016-08-15 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 222016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 292016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 52016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 122016-09-12 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 192016-09-19 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 262016-09-26 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 32016-10-03 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 102016-10-10 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 172016-10-17 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 242016-10-24 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 312016-10-31 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 72016-11-07 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 142016-11-14 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 212016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 282016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 52016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
guessmyname·May 24, 2016
I expected this to be the solution for my broken Linux font experience. In Linux there is no support for Emoji and every time someone uses them in a website to display so semi-important idea I get frustrated because the only thing I see is a blank character or a rectangular border. I thought this service was something like "discover what this non-supported character actually is" more than "discover what is the meaning of this character". I know about the existence of alternatives [1][2] but I wish there was native support for this trend in Linux. And yes, I know emoji is actually an old thing from Japan companies, but is still a young trend in terms of western usage. I wonder how difficult would be to copy all those images from the Apple font and create a custom TTF so I can get the fancy colored symbols in my computer. Of course, distrib
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ution of that file would be against Apple's copyright (or maybe not, I don't know) but I don't care. EDIT1: Actually this is what I was expecting to be; I forgot I had disabled JavaScript in my browser. Still would like to have an official font with Emoji support for Linux. EDIT2: Thanks to gtk40 I found [3] now I can create my own font with those images. [1] https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font [2] https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font [3] http://emojipedia.org/apple/
In Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com

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