The Windows 10 Anniversary Update's emoji are probably proprietary

Anonus

So jealous

Salix Babylonika

mouse

Princess Alice

You seem very taken with the Windows 10 AU emoji

Anonus

I am

glennmagusharvey

not sure if should be sad because proprietary or should be happy since this makes emoji less attractive and i don't like emoji

Princess Alice

As far as I can tell, if you want open-source licensed emoji, your options are:

• Google (Noto Emoji, used in Android and Hangouts, among other things)
• Twitter (Twemoji, also used in Discord)
• Mozilla (FirefoxEmoji, used in the now-discontinued Firefox OS)
• Emoji One (an independent project)

...so you've got a decent range of choices, at least. Of those I'd probably rank Twitter's the highest, followed by Google, Emoji One, and Mozilla in that order.

Anonus

Emoji One feels, aesthetically, like a mixed bag to me

Princess Alice

Yeah, I definitely get the impression they have a few different designers each working in their own style.

That said, they still rank above Mozilla's for me because Mozilla's are either horrifying monstrosities or just straight-up copies of Twemoji.

Calica

emoji one feels really bad to me, at least last time i looked at them on emojipedia

Princess Alice

Emojidex is even worse, judging from emojipedia

Viani

I never thought that someday Emojis would be something that the legal department would have to pay attention to

can lawsuits be pressed over Emoji rights?