Marcus Swan
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

I see emoji as occupying a space between the visually literal and the conceptually expressive. The use of emoji to create “secret” languages that have meaning to a specific group (or indeed between two individuals) is their greatest attribute.

It will be interesting to see how that evolution from complexity to simplicity as people manage the ever increasing number and types of emoji, the current count for Unicode v11.0 stands at 2,823.

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