Emotional complexity and emoji can feel pretty mutually exclusive. Exaggerated cartoon antics daubed with brash primary colors don’t typically lend themselves to expressing subtle shifts in mood, or ...

Designer Rebecca Lynch found she couldn’t express herself through standard emoji when she was feeling unsociable. So she created her own You can express happiness, anger or the feeling of wanting to ...

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There are emoji for pears, koalas, and jack-o’-lanterns; for a pine tree, a pizza slice, and a dragon’s head on a plate. But there are no emoji for black people. That seems likely to change soon: ...