After months of anticipation and (apparently) some debate, 72 new emoji characters are officially on their way to smartphones everywhere as part of Unicode ... from 74 down to 72.

Emojipedia founder and Chief Emoji Officer Jeremy Burge has announced that the Unicode Consortium has approved 69 emoji as part of the Emoji 5.0 update for 2017. The Unicode Consortium is a non ...

Have you noticed a lot of the emoji on your phone point left? Whether it's a car, a person walking, or a dog, many of the emoji at your fingertips are designed to face leftward. Unicode Consortium ...

The lying face, shruggie, nauseated, and sneezing emoji are among 67 proposed additions, released in an updated list last week, from the non-profit Unicode Consortium. The latest list includes a ...

The Unicode Consortium ... create all-new emoji from existing designs. The shaking and nodding heads are made of the standard smiling face emoji plus horizontal and vertical arrow emoji.

Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for. Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji.