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Putting a filter: grayscale(); over the title makes the emojis melt more into the text. it makes it a bit more readable.

At that point why not just filter images from twitter?

Some posts not might make sense without the image as opposed to a post that’d not intended to have an image.

Also, there’s an argument to be made for emojis adding tone, albeit lazily. Grayscale sounds like an interesting middle ground.

One solution to this issue is to use an emoji font that is designed to be color-free, like one of the variants of OpenEmoji.

I disagree. Using this thing for an hour, users with emojis are more distinguishable at a glance. I often face this issue with HN where I have to read the user's username to know if they're OP. Twitter usernames with emojis, however, is really obnoxious.

it sounds like you are implying every user should have a distinct emoji at the start of their name .. i.e. an avatar image