Update readme noting update to emoji design.

Also added sections on the emoji font assets and the b/w emoji font,
since this information is not widely known.
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[issue #36](https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/36). Currently we do
not build other color font formats.
## Color emoji assets
The assets provided in the repo are all those used to build the NotoColorEmoji
font. Note however that NotoColorEmoji often uses the same assets to represent
different character sequences-- notably, most gender-neutral characters or
sequences are represented using assets named after one of the gendered
sequences. This means that some sequences appear to be missing. Definitions of
the aliasing used appear in the aliases.txt file.
Also note that the images in the font might differ from the original assets. In
particular the flag images in the font are PNG images to which transforms have
been applied to standardize the size and generate the wave and border shadow. We
do not have SVG versions that reflect these transforms.
## B/W emoji font
The black-and-white emoji font is not under active development. Its repertoire of
emoji is now several years old, and the design does not reflect the current color
emoji design. Currently we have no plans to update this font.
## License
Emoji fonts (under the fonts subdirectory) are under the
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## News
* 2017-09-13: Emoji redesign released.
* 2015-12-09: Unicode 7 and 8 emoji image data (.png format) added.
* 2015-09-29: All Noto fonts now licensed under the SIL Open Font License.