Apple Color Emoji

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Apple Color Emoji (shown as AppleColorEmoji) is a color typeface used on Apple platforms such as iOS and macOS to display Emoji characters.^[2][3]

The inclusion of emoji in the iPhone and in the Unicode standard has been credited with promoting the spreading use of emoji outside Japan.^[4][5][6] As with many Apple icons past and present, they feature a design based on deep, saturated colors and gradual transitions of color, often incorporating subtle gloss effects.^[7][8]

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Original release[]

The first version of Apple Color Emoji was released alongside iPhone OS 2.2 in November 2008 and contained 471 individual emoji glyphs.^[9] Originally limited to Japanese iPhone models, this restriction was later lifted.^[10]

The designers of the first Apple Color Emoji typeface were Raymond Sepulveda, Angela Guzman and Ollie Wagner.^[11]

Due to the iPhone originally launching in Japan on the SoftBank network, some Apple emoji designs may have been created to resemble those on SoftBank phones.^[12] For example, WIKI