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0 pointsehsankia8y ago0 comments

Yep, new emojis look absolutely awful. They are so out of touch with what their customers want. It's like the emojis were made by some robot or algorithm that is trying to optimize the wrong parameters. I mean, just look at this comparison: http://i.imgur.com/apqo9Ry.png

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ftxrcc8y ago

They're not out of touch with what their customers want. Many of them didn't like them because of the whole "Android is cheap" dilemma (which is BS). The users asked and they got. The people who did like them are a very small, specific, yet vocal group of people.

ricardobeat8y ago

Where do you take that from? To me, the new ones look way "cheaper", like ripped off WordArt.

batiudrami8y ago

They look more like the iOS ones. That's what's important (even though I think the overuse of gradients makes iOS emoji look dated too).

Oddly Facebook Messenger seems to have the best set [1], for my eyes.

[1] https://emojipedia.org/messenger/

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klondike_8y ago

I suspect the reason for the update was to bring the Android emoji more in line with Apple's, which are generally considered the standard emoji.

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