noto-emoji

I don't think the blog post itself is using that emoji font. The screenshot on the Noto Emoji Github page[0] doesn't look like it's using any gradients for the heart emoji, just flat shading. But it is using gradients for some of the other emojis (e.g. the croissant), and obviously the SVG fallback is all or nothing, not per-glyph. [0] https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

OTOH if you want a quick favicon that renders consistently everywhere, Googles emoji set is available as SVGs (and fallback PNGs for Safari) under a permissive license. https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

Same. Digging the repository issues I found this: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/issues/265

Google already had a black and white emoji font. I think from before color fonts were a thing. However they stopped updating that in 2015 (https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/commits/2f1ffdd6fb...). This is likely a descendant of that rather than completely from scratch. It's also interesting they call out emoji being too detailed as a problem. For some characters like Pistol (apple-fied into Squirt Gun) they've copied Apples style -- presumably to avoid confusion. So acknowledging that not all fonts need to look the same is a bit refreshing there. Though of course the black and white pistol still looks like a squirt-gun

These are all super ugly -- if you want good SVG flags with a permissive license, I highly recommend using the SVGs from Noto Color Emoji: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/tree/main/svg

No font in Google fonts does, for instance. At least from their own little demonstrator. There is https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji Noto Emoji which can render the flags but you need to build it yourself

> No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour. You're mistaken, that does not reflect reality. https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/ https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji I have specifically installed this font in my X/Linux system to get colourful emoji.

Noto uses Apache-2.0 [1] which should be fine for most stuff. [1]: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE

FYI: google's are Apache licensed here: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji Twitter emoji (discord uses these also) are open source: https://twemoji.twitter.com/ Both of these are very consistent and good open source emoji. I think in the past a lot of these projects that were not backed by companies eventually devolved into a paid product that was no longer open source, but I'm hopeful that openmoji continues down the FOSS path.

He's using the Google Noto library for handling fonts: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji EDIT: This is also a really nice font library as well: https://www.emojione.com/ though you have to pay for a commercial license if that's your end game

Hi, I made those color SVGinOT emoji fonts. There are four methods for implementing (multi)color in OpenType fonts: * Apple's SBIX table - Embedded bitmaps, non-standard, used on OS X. * Google's CBLC+CBDT - Embedded bitmaps, part of OpenType spec, used on Android. * Microsoft's COLR+CPAL - Colored glyphs, part of OpenType spec, used in Windows. * Adobe/Mozilla/W3C's SVG+CPAL - SVG in OpenType (SVGinOT), part of OpenType spec, works in Firefox/Thunderbird. I chose to use SVGinOT because it is the only out-of-the-box option for color font support on Linux right now. I plan to make both CBLC+CBDT and SBIX versions in the future. > I wish there was native support for this trend in Linux There is an unmaintained patch for Cairo to support Google's bitmap CBDT+CBLC OpenType format.[1] It needs to be updated and completed for "official" Linux s