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I prefer Noto Emoji: https://emojipedia.org/google

imo the best ones are on Apple, and I'm saying this as an android user which happens to use Signal (which uses the apple emojis)

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I will die on the hill that the blobs were the best emoji and Google should have never gotten rid of them.

They were very cute!

Here's a page with more information for anyone curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blob_emoji

If they didn't need them, kind of wish they had been released in a way that'd allow for making an online collection that can be used for apps/websites. Right now all I could find were some Discord servers that'd let you use them on that particular platform or something like that.

They are very popular on the Fediverse.

They're in the Emoji Kitchen (Gboard on Android)! Try combining the magic wand with any smiley: https://emojikitchen.dev/

I agree. FWIW, they've returned (somewhat) in the black and white version of noto emojis

The only important function of emojis should be to display the same idea or emotion to the viewer as was intended by the person who sent it. We're in a much better state now with all the emoji sets slowly converging to look the same, compared to years ago when Samsung's grimace emoji looked constipated[1], or their eye roll emoji looked like a cute smile while everyone else's was clearly a sarcastic eye roll[2], causing many a miscommunication.

The blobs were nice in a vacuum, but in most usages they weren't an accurate reflection of the intent of either the person sending them, or what the person seeing them was supposed to see from the sender. They made the right move switching away.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/6bk8i1/samsun...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/7gm5f6/come_on_guy...

Microsoft Teams has some of the most consistently designed emoji:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-all-availabl...

Apple’s are good but are not super consistent in terms of style.

Apple's, Noto, and OpenMoji are far more legible to me than Teams. I'll take being able to quickly recognize the emojis over consistency any day.

I _loathe_ the Teams emoji, but then again the entire application is utterly awful. I'd much rather use these openmoji in something like Slack or Matrix.

Their tongue out emoji (which I use quite frequently) looks ridiculous. Pretty much every emoji set has a neutral looking face with the tongue out, indicating a very slight amount of unseriousness. Meanwhile the Teams one has big anime-esque smiling eyes that looks straight up goofy.

Also their thumbs up has such a fat hand you can barely tell it's a hand or where the fingers are.

But yes, far from the biggest issues with this stupid app.

I had to zoom in to see there was a tongue. It looks like an open mouth. What a terrible design.

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