An emoji built for flirtation and fanning the flames of drama is fully in line with this full tilt fire sign. Runner up is the hand heart emoji as Leo rules the heart and loves a puppet show. New ...

What’s more, unlike emoji, the visual language used in comics creates “grammatical” sequences of images in a way that makes them much more similar to spoken or sign languages.

As of last week, there are now 3,053 emoji, counting the 230 just approved for this year’s cohort—yes, the icons now get annual releases, like Microsoft Word or tax returns. As a white man ...

In San Francisco this weekend, the inaugural Emojicon brought together the world's foremost experts on emoji, language and design to answer some of our most pressing emoji questions.

An emoji is not a cute creature from Star Wars like an Ewok (which does have a language of its own). Nor is an emoji the same as an emoticon. An emoticon is a portmanteau word combining emotion ...

Imagine speaking a language whose individual words are controlled by an obscure committee. Groups of hopefuls relentlessly lobby these bureaucrats, trying to expand the list of permitted expressions.

Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.