Jeremy Burge, Chief Emoji Officer of Emojipedia (The Tiny Typecast)
Emoji are ubiquitous, inconsitent across time and platforms, hard to reproduce, and ever increasing in popularity.
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Show Notes
Emoji are the first kind of symbolic element designed to read only online that’s also difficult, sometimes impossible, to reproduce accurately in print—or in a static electronic document, like a PDF. In this episode, I talk with Jeremy Burge, the chief emoji officer of Emojipedia, a site that exhaustively documents the past and present of those popular pictographs. He also helps chart the future as a member of the Unicode Consortium group that considers adding new emoji to the official Unicode set.
Sponsored by the Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule and the associated book, Six Centuries of Type & Printing. Find out more.