From 7a30f099ad4e6bf455e95261e33bba06253f0d7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Felt Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:05:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9e1fb9a8a..48dec32e8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -24,6 +24,26 @@ does. Chrome on Linux will support it with some fontconfig tweaking, see [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 @@ -38,5 +58,6 @@ Please read [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) if you are thinking of contributing ## 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.