skin color palettes about twemoji HOT 3 OPEN

Just to put a spanner in the works. But everyone realises a Swede does not look like a Nigerian just with different colour skin right?

I mean there are other different facial characteristics that vary between population groups.

If we were to be entirely representative there would be different nose shapes for a start. As well as different hair textures. (Just having average sort-of-wavey hair for every human just isn't accurate).

An emoji with dark skin and straight/wavey hair can pass for a Southern Indian, for example, but doesn't look anything like a typical Kenyan, or Australian.

So really, we need at least 100 different emojis for all the ethnic groups and variations thereof.

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So really, we need at least 100 different emojis for all the ethnic groups and variations thereof.

This project is just one implementation of emoji that follows the Unicode standard. The skin color palettes here are Twemoji's implementation of the skin color modifiers encoded in Unicode, which are based on Fitzpatrick skin types. Comments on the limited number of emojis or what is/isn't included don't really belong here because the people working on Twemoji don't make decisions on what is in the Unicode standard.

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OK, just as long as we all know it's very very silly.

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