Tutorial: Colored emojis in Chromium

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Microsoft has a color emoji font, Segoe UI. A nearly current version can be found here.

But this is not a perfect solution. Segoe UI cannot display every single emoji in existence, so I use a combo of Segoe UI and Noto Color Emoji.

And these commands will download, extract, and copy the two fonts to the .fonts folder:

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mkdir ~/tmp
cd tmp
wget https://fontsdata.com/zipdown-segoeuiemoji-132714.htm 
wget https://noto-website.storage.googleapis.com/pkgs/NotoColorEmoji-unhinted.zip
mv zipdown-segoeuiemoji-132714.htm segoeuiemoji.zip
unzip segoeuiemoji.zip
unzip NotoColorEmoji-unhinted.zip
mkdir /home/pi/.fonts &>/dev/null
mv seguiemj.ttf "/home/pi/.fonts/Segoe UI.ttf"
mv NotoColorEmoji.ttf "/home/pi/.fonts/Noto Color Emoji.ttf"
fc-cache -f -v &>/dev/null
rm -r ~/tmp
cd

Before:

After:
Check out this emoji preview site, it should look like this:

Edit: fixed one faulty command.

[DougieLawson]

Oh dear! Why would anyone want those on a serious computer?

[davidcoton]

My doctor told me my brain is as useful as a Raspberry Pi. Is that a compliment?

On the evidence of this topic....

[Heater]

I do wish people would not use emojis. Nobody know what they mean. They are so easily misinterpreted. Whatever meaning they may have can get totally lost in the way they are drawn at the receiving end which is different across all devices and operating systems.

[DougieLawson]

I do wish people would not use emojis. Nobody know what they mean.

For some values of nobody.

The Japanese are fluent in emoji. Gen Y & Gen Z are fluent. My wife isn't fluent and her WhatsApp messages benefit greatly from that.

Tom Scott, the well known YouTuber in the maroon T-shirt is fluent in Emoji (and his story is very funny in an accidental sort of way).
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... opensearch

[Heater]

OK then. Someone understands emoji.

In that case, could one of those someones make an emoji-english dictionary so that us old geezers can catch up.

Certainly one can make a stab at interpreting some that look kind of obvious. Especially if they are attached to some supporting text or other context. But how can I be sure facial expressions, hand signals and other icons have the same meaning to me as whoever sent them or anyone else?

When someone sticks a smiley on a post how do I know if they are just pointing out that they are joking in general, or making a mean joke at my expense? Or just generally happy about something?

The pile of poo emoji is a case in point. In it's original form it was an ugly, smelly looking thing with flies buzzing around it. Which conveys a very different meaning to me than the modern form that is a very happy, friendly looking piece of shit. Apparently Apple though the original form was a bit too unpleasant so they neutered it.

And what about the lizard and butterfly and such? How do I know there is not some deeply offensive meaning behind some of those, a kind of emoji slang.

God knows what all those empty rectangles we often see are are supposed to mean.

[r00t4rd3d]

Thanks! This still works if anyone is wondering.

[leetheguy]

This worked great on my Pi4! Thanks so much!