Microsoft is making more than 1,500 of its 3D emojis publicly available for users to edit, turn into stickers, or create unique sets of emojis.<\/p>\n
The Verge reports<\/a><\/strong> that most of Microsoft’s 1,538 emoji library will be available on GitHub<\/a><\/strong> and Figma<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Microsoft first released its emojis in 2021 and 3D versions in Teams in February 2022, including the ability to allow users to select custom skin tones.<\/p>\n Microsoft design and research corporate vice president Jon Friedman told The Verge that the company never originally intended to open source its emoji library.<\/p>\n “Initially we were focused on building the body of work,” he said.<\/p>\n Friedman said he expects to see “really unique and specific” remixes of its emojis, which he hopes will be broadly applicable in future.<\/p>\n Microsoft said that a contributing factor to its decision to open source its emojis is the shift to remote and hybrid working caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n It explained that expressing oneself through text has become more important in the current state of work.<\/p>\n “Emojis started to play a bigger and bigger role… and that enabled people to feel a little more comfortable with authentically reacting to things emotively,” The Verge quoted Friedman as saying.<\/p>\n Microsoft has uploaded its emoji library on GitHub and Figma to edit, turn into stickers, or create unique sets of emojis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":456139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34483,80527,123,42254],"class_list":["post-456135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-emojis","tag-jon-friedman","tag-microsoft","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456159,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456135\/revisions\/456159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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