{"id":57849,"date":"2019-04-02T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57849"},"modified":"2019-04-04T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:49:08","slug":"emoji-gods-approve-skin-tone-options-for-couples-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57849","title":{"rendered":"Emoji gods approve skin-tone options for couples of color"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emoji gods approve skin-tone options for couples of color<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a>
\n2019-03-08<\/p>\n

Leanne Itale<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThis undated illustration provided by Tinder<\/a>\/Emojination<\/a> shows new variations of interracial emoji<\/a> couples. In the world of emojis, interracial couples had virtually no options in terms of skin tone. But the emoji gods, otherwise known as the Unicode Consortium<\/a>, recently rectified that, approving 71 new variations. Using six skin tones already available for one-person emojis, vendors such as Apple<\/a>, Google<\/a> and Microsoft<\/a> will now be able to offer couples of color. Additions are expected later this year. (Tinder\/Emojination via AP)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

NEW YORK<\/a> \u2014 In 1664, Maryland<\/a> passed the first British colonial law banning marriage between whites and slaves. An 1883 U.S. Supreme Court ruling<\/a> that state prohibitions on interracial marriage don\u2019t violate the Fourteenth Amendment<\/a> held for more than 80 years.<\/p>\n

While such impediments to marriage were dismantled over time, there are still hurdles, however small, to overcome. Here, in 2019, interracial couples have a small victory to celebrate: The approval of 71 new variations of emoji<\/a> for couples of color.<\/p>\n

Capping a yearlong project thought up by, of all people, the folks at the swipe-right dating<\/a> app Tinder<\/a>, the emoji gods (known as the Unicode Consortium<\/a>) recently approved the additions in characters technically referred to as people \u201cholding hands.\u201d A new \u201cgender-inclusive\u201d couple emoji was also approved among 230 new characters.<\/p>\n

Until now, emoji of two or more people on various platforms and devices have been available only in the default yellow. While the Unicode Consortium, where Google<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a> and Apple<\/a> have voting seats, signed off on the skin-tone additions, companies will decide for themselves starting later this year whether to add them and how they will look.<\/p>\n

Jenny Campbell<\/a>, the chief marketing officer for Tinder, isn\u2019t worried about distribution after the company mounted a campaign and petition drive in support of the technical proposal it submitted to Unicode…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Capping a yearlong project thought up by, of all people, the folks at the swipe-right dating app Tinder, the emoji gods (known as the Unicode Consortium) recently approved the additions in characters technically referred to as people \u201cholding hands.\u201d A new \u201cgender-inclusive\u201d couple emoji was also approved among 230 new characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,20],"tags":[2822,29670,29671,29668,29666,8569,23782,29669,29667],"class_list":["post-57849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-associated-press","tag-emojination","tag-emojis","tag-jenny-campbell","tag-leanne-itale","tag-the-associated-press","tag-tinder","tag-tinder-emojination","tag-unicode-consortium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57849"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57865,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57849\/revisions\/57865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}