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Jennifer Daniel | |
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| Nationality | American |
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Jennifer Daniel is an American artist, designer and art director. She leads the Emoji Standard and Research Working Group for The Unicode Consortium and has worked for The New York Times and The New Yorker . [1] [2] [3]
Daniel grew up in Kansas. [4] Since she was a teenager, Daniel has chronicled her life in sketchbook form documenting quotable moments with her family alongside grid drawings. [5] She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art [4] and then worked at the New York Times. [4] She later taught creative writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. [6] From September 2009 to July 2011, she worked in a studio space at the Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. [7]
In 2015, her first children's book Space! was published. Two more books followed: The Origin of (Almost) Everything (2016) [8] which included an introduction from Stephen Hawking. Later, How to Be Human (2017) was published.
Daniel is a member of the Art Director's Club. [9] Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators.[ citation needed ]
Daniel’s first contribution to Unicode Standard was standardizing gender inclusive representations in emoji. [10] [11] She created the Mrs Claus, Woman in Tuxedo, Man in Veil and 30 other gender-inclusive emoji. [12] In addition to her work for the Unicode Consortium, Daniel serves as the Expressions Creative Director for Android and Google. [13] [14]
Daniel has authored and co-authored over two dozen emoji including: 🥲🥹🫡🫢🫣🫤🫥🫠😮💨😶🌫️😵💫🫧❤️🔥❤️🩹🫂🫦🫱🫲🫰🫱🏿🫲🏻🫅🧑🍼🫄🫗🪫 [15]
An emoticon, short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
The Unicode Consortium is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.
An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of modern emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation as well as to replace words as part of a logographic system. Emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, expressions, activity, food and drinks, celebrations, flags, objects, symbols, places, types of weather, animals, and nature.
Jennifer 8. Lee is an American journalist who previously worked for The New York Times. She is the co-founder and president of the literary studio Plympton and a producer of The Search for General Tso, which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.
A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent sex and gender, for example in biology and medicine, in genealogy, or in the sociological fields of gender politics, LGBT subculture and identity politics.
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block (U+2600–U+26FF) containing glyphs representing concepts from a variety of categories: astrological, astronomical, chess, dice, musical notation, political symbols, recycling, religious symbols, trigrams, warning signs, and weather, among others.
Mark Edward Davis is an American specialist in the internationalization and localization of software and the co-founder and chief technical officer of the Unicode Consortium, previously serving as its president until 2022.
The regional indicator symbols are a set of 26 alphabetic Unicode characters (A–Z) intended to be used to encode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes in a way that allows optional special treatment.
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts found in Microsoft Windows.
Pile of Poo (💩), also known informally as the poomoji (slang), poop emoji, or poo emoji, is an emoji resembling a coiled pile of feces, usually adorned with cartoon eyes and a large smile. Originating from Japan, it is used as an expression in various contexts. Some possible uses include: as a response of passive aggressive emotion; for comedic value; as commentary on what's bad; or as its literal meaning. The emoji is in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs Unicode block: U+1F4A9💩PILE OF POO.
Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji. Most of them are intended as representations of faces, although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters.
Noto is a free font family comprising over 100 individual computer fonts, which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. As of November 2024, Noto covers around 1,000 languages and 162 writing systems. As of October 2016, Noto fonts cover all 93 scripts defined in Unicode version 6.1, although fewer than 30,000 of the nearly 75,000 CJK unified ideographs in version 6.0 are covered. In total, Noto fonts cover over 77,000 characters, which is around half of the 149,186 characters defined in Unicode 15.0.
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters in the Unicode Standard. Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia or emoji dictionary, Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes and usage trends. It has been owned by Zedge since 2021.
Charlie Craggs is a British transgender actress, activist, and author from London.
Blob emoji is an implementation of emojis by Google featured in its Android mobile operating system between 2013 and 2017.
Emojination is a grassroots organization that designs and advocates for the additions of inclusive emojis to be added to the Unicode Standard. Established in 2015, it was founded by Jennifer Lee and Yiying Lu. Emojination's motto is “Emoji by the people, for the people” and the founders help individuals to submit emoji proposals to Unicode. Lee and Lu were listed on Fast Company's list of 100 most creative business people in 2017 for their emoji work.
The implementation of emojis on different platforms took place across a three-decade period, starting in the 1990s. Today, the exact appearance of emoji is not prescribed but can vary between fonts and platforms, much like different typefaces.
The Pistol emoji (🔫) is an emoji defined by the Unicode Consortium as depicting a "handgun" or "revolver".
Yiying Lu is an artist most known for creating the 2008 Twitter Fail Whale, co-creating the dumpling emoji, and co-founding Emojination. She was born in Shanghai, China and earned her Bachelor of Design from University of Technology Sydney. She is based in San Francisco, California, US.
The Person with Headscarf emoji (🧕) is included in Unicode 10.0 and the Emoji 5.0 depicting a person wearing a headscarf wrapped around the top of their head and underneath their chin which is typically used to convey a woman wearing a hijab. The creation of the emoji was petitioned by Rayouf Alhumedhi, designed by Alephandra Messer, and approved by the Unicode Consortium in 2016.
