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I was thinking these are somehow generated. But they are Google's mashups: https://emojipedia.org/emoji-kitchen/

i was wondering why they look like google's ugly emoji

See also: "Emoji Kitchen" (but different URL https://emoji.supply/kitchen/) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32232546 (850 points | 10 months ago | 190 comments)

The emojis are cool, the UI is nice - but I really like this[0] as a small-scale example of a project built within the Github ecosystem - deployment (Github Actions) and hosting (Github Pages).

[0]: https://github.com/xsalazar/emoji-kitchen

looking more into this i guess it's called emoji kitchen by google and there's over 20,000 combinations, its crazy using this tool and seeing how specific they can get, they're not lazily copy pasted either, need a hedgehog wearing headphones? google got you covered i guess

Kiwi grin? Beetle hearts? My goodness. This is pretty strange, and I kinda love it. What was it made for, I wonder?

It seems to be a visualizer of Google Emoji Kitchen feature: https://emojipedia.org/emoji-kitchen/

You can also combine the same emoji with itself, getting an exaggerated version.

LMAO You're right https://i.imgur.com/PVhWci3.png

Good lord, I wonder how long this took to create.

Some of these are insanely hilarious with the more exaggerated version. Like the salute emoji uses both hands

Yeah, it's amazing that Google paid a bunch of designers to do this for over 30.000(!!) combinations. The feature isn't even advertised in the Google software keyboard, it's easy to miss.

https://www.androidpolice.com/gboard-emoji-kitchen-how-to-ex...

This is brilliant! Some of these combinations are very creative. Try shark + cheese or shark + clown...

Nothing beats crying + sunglasses

https://www.gstatic.com/android/keyboard/emojikitchen/202010...

For when you are sad, upset or otherwise in pain, but don’t want to admit it

Thanks, these are cool! I also like shark + hotdog, and even more shark + bee.

My favorite is Unamused Face + Face with Party Horn and Party Hat.

I like how you can put almost anything in a hole (U+1F573)

I like wooden log + <animal> ex bunny

Oh man, I was looking for high quality pngs of these combinations earlier. My hacky solution was to post to a private Twitter account from mobile, since Twitter serves these as pngs with alpha channel (and not as "stickers" or jpgs), copy them, and then remove the tweet. Never occured to me that these are just hosted on gstatic.com, insane.

Interestingly, there are no eggplant and water drips emojis. They are used in online communication mostly as sexual innuendos.

They seem to be there just not selectable as the base, there's an eggplant version of the pumpkin, devilish purple face, etc.

Yet they have the loudly crying emoji.

And the bottom emoji

As far as I know this is mostly the work of [Jennifer Daniel](https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc...), who is the chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee and works at Google. She's great!

She did create all of the emoji mashups for the first version of emoji kitchen by herself. I don't know if she had help for the current version, which features many more emoji combinations.

No eggplant, and no peach. What happened to the internet?

Don't worry: hairpick + mouse trap has you covered: https://furry.engineer/@indrora/110521268976812984

What does... that mean?

There is a cucumber though, with some ...interesting.. mashups.

I wonder if we can fine tune a language model using this and then get infinite emoji mixes… Could be a fun weekend project. If SVG of those icons exists somewhere it’s possible to find tune GPT with it too

Why a language model instead of stable diffusion? My brain went to "LoRA for Emojis + Img2Img existing emoji into new one" run in a massive loop, with some logic for "most useful combinations" put first.

It's probably better to finetune a text-to-image model for that, at least they have a lot of knowledge about the visual world.

With such a large set of base and mashup emojis, it should be possible for an image generator to fill in the missing combinations.

Talking about kitchens, what happened to the data Uri kitchen at hixie's?

Would be cool if you could get this as a plugin for signal/WhatsApp/etc

On Android using Gboard (Google's default keyboard) you can insert those as images into many IM apps.

I love this feature. I just wish there was a way to browse more of them from the UI.

How in earth did they manage to make so many combinations..?

Google paid an illustrator

At over 30.000 combinations probably not just one.

I don’t know why Koala Moon is a thing but it’s glorious

Spider Moon!

They should just add all of these to Unicode!

The sarcasm is strong with this one.

The ones with fish are great.

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