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Comment by wongarsu | Hacker News Reader

Really cool concept. Apparently these are all handmade emojis made for Google's Android Keyboard [1]. And by the looks of it they are all available at fairly obvious URLs [2], which this tool exposes in a fun interface.

1: https://9to5google.com/2021/09/24/gboard-emoji-kitchen-list/

2: e.g. https://www.gstatic.com/android/keyboard/emojikitchen/202108...

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There's also a lot of funny combinations that use three emoji, which you can't do with this page, if anyone's using Gboard already they should definitely give it a go :)

They seem to go up to 4 :)

Example: https://github.com/UCYT5040/Google-Sticker-Mashup-Research/b...

Edit: 6: https://github.com/UCYT5040/Google-Sticker-Mashup-Research/b...

Both examples are still two emoji. In the first, the second emoji is the combination of u1f62e and u1f4a8 via a zero width join (u200d) to form the exhaling emoji glyph. Explained more here https://emojipedia.org/face-exhaling/

Wait, seriously? I thought the keyboard stopped at 2!

Examples?

I'm glad they're done by hand because I was expecting horrifying results when it rolled a cat on one side and an arrow through a heart on the other.

https://tikolu.net/emojimix/%F0%9F%94%A5+%E2%9B%84

Thanks for pointing out the URL - I tried and failed to find it when I discovered these for myself, but now you've found it for me I might try to make something to enumerate them.

All the two emoji combinations are enumerated at https://github.com/UCYT5040/Google-Sticker-Mashup-Research.

There is also info about the internal API Gboard uses on there.

Ah, brilliant, thankyou.

I am surprised that they aren't SVG not PNG, or maybe those are in some other directory structure...

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