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Update gorilla emoji to full gorilla instead of just face #478

Open brandonhaslegs opened 3 years ago

brandonhaslegs commented 3 years ago

The gorilla emoji doesn't match any other platform. It should be redrawn to be a full-sized gorilla instead of just a face.

Crissov commented 3 years ago

Everybody else had 🦍 as a face originally as well, but meanwhile converged on Apple's design choice, unfortunately.

Unicode should adopt ZWJ sequences to distinguish full-body and facial animal emojis (and their should be gender variants in some cases #164), e.g. 🦍‍👤.

brandonhaslegs commented 3 years ago

Whether the choice was unfortunate or not is not exactly the point, although I totally agree that users should be able to choose to display a head or a body (or in some cases choose the gender) for animal emoji. I bring this issue up purely from a user experience perspective. When a user taps on a full-sized gorilla emoji on any platform, Twemoji displays a gorilla head. That's unexpected and feels like a mistake.

brandonhaslegs commented 3 years ago

I would even argue that in this case displaying only the head of the gorilla is incorrect, because the emoji is called "Gorilla," not "Gorilla Face".

Examples of this: Cow Face 🐮 (U+1F42E) vs Cow 🐄 (U+1F404) Pig Face 🐷 (U+ 1F437) vs Pig 🐖 (U+ 1F416)

Crissov commented 3 years ago

No, those a legacy distinctions. Showing either, head or body, is fine.

brandonhaslegs commented 3 years ago

🤔 How can they be legacy but also still be the current and official name of the character? Can you link me to something that explains which emojis are legacy? On unicode.org, which I assume is up to date, these characters are still called "Cow," "Cow Face," "Pig," and "Pig Face."

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html#1f42e https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html#1f437 https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html#1f416 https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html#1f404

brandonhaslegs commented 3 years ago

Even if they wait to draw the full body gorilla when Unicode adopts ZWJ sequences for animals, the fact remains that the full body gorilla needs to be drawn, so the work needs to be done regardless. Might as well do it now, switch to a full body gorilla to conform with all other platforms, and when Unicode adopts ZWJ sequences for animals, then Twemoji will already have both ready to go!

Crissov commented 3 years ago

What I meant by ”legacy distinction“ is that new animal emojis will not come in pairs of two codepoints for both, head and body. This newer policy does not recommend one glyph design over the other, however.

I think it was U+1F992 🦒 with the character name Giraffe Face that sparked the discussion at the time, which resulted in the emoji name becoming just Giraffe.