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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.

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.

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.

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