The Unicode Consortium today released version 10.0.0 of the Unicode Standard, introducing 56 new emoji characters ranging from crazy face and face with monocle to t-rex, pie, and pretzel.

Sometimes you’re trying to keep your eyes wide to fight back the tears while laughing wildly. It can look crazy—a little pieced together, after all—but there’s an emoji to convey the feeling.

In that moment, an emoji often deployed with a dose of irony turned curiously sincere. As laid-off designer Audrey Davis observed, she never thought the saluting face would make her “sob.” ...

These Are the Crazy, Silly, Cute Emoji Coming to iOS 9.1 Extended middle finger included. By Kim Lachance Shandrow Sep 10, 2015 Share ...

Smiley face dot com: GoDaddy releases an EMOJI search engine and domain name registration service. ... The symbol has its origins in anime and manga, where it is used to show that someone is sleeping.

The official emoji “face with a look of triumph” is confusing because it looks angry. The solution: Remove the “steam from nose to appear like it is winning, not angry/fed up.” ...