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Google's Noto fonts project includes the Noto Color Emoji font, which supplies color glyphs for emoji characters. [25] ChromeOS, through its inclusion of the Noto fonts, supports the emoji set introduced through Unicode 6.2. As of ChromeOS 41, Noto Color Emoji is the default font for most emoji.
The fonts implement almost the whole of the Multilingual European Subset 1 of Unicode. Also provided are keyboard handlers for Windows and the Mac, making input easy. They are based on fonts designed by URW++ Design and Development Incorporated, and offer lookalikes for Courier, Helvetica, Times, Palatino, and New Century Schoolbook. [4]
Typeface Family Spacing Weights/Styles Target script Included from Can be installed on Example image Aharoni [6]: Sans Serif: Proportional: Bold: Hebrew: XP, Vista
Starting with Windows 10 Microsoft Windows also contains so called "emoji keyboard". It can be started by holding down the Windows key (the one with the Windows symbol on it) and hitting the period or semicolon key. The emoji keyboard allows entering of emojis as well as symbols. [8]
Any operating system that supports adding additional fonts to the system can add an emoji-supporting font. However, inclusion of colorful emoji in existing font formats requires dedicated support for color glyphs. Not all operating systems have support for color fonts, so, emoji might have to be rendered as black-and-white line art or not at all.
The ChromeOS core fonts, also known as the Croscore fonts, are a collection of three TrueType font families: Arimo (), Tinos and Cousine ().These fonts are metrically compatible with Monotype Corporation’s Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New, the most commonly used fonts on Microsoft Windows, for which they are intended as open-source substitutes.
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs is a Unicode block containing meteorological and astronomical symbols, emoji characters [3] largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' implementations of Shift JIS, and characters originally from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts found in Microsoft Windows.
Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird also package Twemoji Mozilla, derived from Twemoji, and use it as a fallback if a system-wide emoji font isn't available. [6] [7] Here are example emojis without specifying an emoji font: 😀♥ ⚠⤴⤵; Here are example emojis with an emoji font stack: 😀♥ ⚠⤴⤵