According to the new report, 217 new emojis have been approved and it is coming to devices in 2021. The new Emojis include a heart on fire, face in the clouds, a woman with a beard, and new mixed skin tone options for couples.
Announced by the Unicode today, these form a release billed as Emoji 13.1 and come under a new schedule from the Consortium. The Emojipedia website released all the new Emoji’s which we are going to mention below.
Timeline:
At the time of publishing, the rollout of Emoji 13.0 has not yet come to a majority of devices, with Google and Samsung only beginning their rollouts in the past month, to a subset of phones. Emoji 13.1 – comes for most people before they have access to the last announced emoji set.
The good news is users on Web apps may start seeing these updates in the coming weeks or months, while major OS updates are likely to be seen any time from January 2021 until potentially as late as October 2021.
New:
Smileys
Three smileys are new in this release, two of which are brand new, one which resolves a disambiguation.
😮💨 Face Exhaling
😵💫 Face with Spiral Eyes
😶🌫 Face in Clouds
Hearts
Hearts are some of the most popular emojis, with Red Heart consistently in the top 10 emojis used on various platforms.
❤️🩹 Mending Heart
❤️🔥 Heart on Fire
Heart on Fire may be used for representations of desire or lust.
Mending Heart – a red heart shown with a bandage across one side.
Beards
Users will get gender inclusive design, and new options provided for a specific woman or man variation.
🧔♀️ Woman: Beard
🧔🏻♀️ Woman: Light Skin Tone, Beard
🧔🏼♀️ Woman: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Beard
🧔🏽♀️ Woman: Medium Skin Tone, Beard
🧔🏾♀️ Woman: Medium-Dark Skin Tone, Beard
🧔🏿♀️ Woman: Dark Skin Tone, Beard
🧔♂️ Man: Beard
🧔🏻♂️ Man: Light Skin Tone, Beard
🧔🏼♂️ Man: Medium-Light Skin Tone, Beard
🧔🏽♂️ Man: Medium Skin Tone, Beard
🧔🏾♂️ Man: Medium-Dark Skin Tone, Beard
🧔🏿♂️ Man: Dark Skin Tone, Beard
Couples
200 of the 217 new emojis approved today by Unicode are to permit skin tone options for 💑 Couple with Heart and 💏 Kiss.
When taking into account five skin tone options, each emoji requires 25 new sequences to allow a different skin tone for either person in the couple.
Four existing emojis multiplied by 25 new options, means 100 new emojis to support skin tones for 💑 Couple with Heart:
💑 Couple with Heart
👩❤️👩 Couple with Heart: Woman, Woman
👨❤️👨 Couple with Heart: Man, Man
👩❤️👨 Couple with Heart: Woman, Man
The same calculation applies for skin tone options in all variations of 💏 Kiss:
💏 Kiss
👩❤️💋👩 Kiss: Woman, Woman
👨❤️💋👨 Kiss: Man, Man
👩❤️💋👨 Kiss: Woman, Man.
