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Noto Emoji fonts

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2016-05-25 · latest 2026-02-05

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  1. …emojis (e.g. the croissant), and obviously the SVG fallback is all or nothing, not per-glyph. [0] https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji
    comment by jsnell · 2026-02-05 · in A Broken Heart
  2. …Googles emoji set is available as SVGs (and fallback PNGs for Safari) under a permissive license. https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji
    comment by jsheard · 2024-10-09 · in Emoji as a Favicon Using SVG (2022)
  3. Same. Digging the repository issues I found this: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/issues/265
    comment by bentinata · 2022-05-02 · in Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color
  4. …font. I think from before color fonts were a thing. However they stopped updating that in 2015 ( https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/commits/2f1ffdd6fb... ). This is likely a descendant of that rather than completely from scratch.…
    comment by missblit · 2022-05-01 · in Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color
  5. …good SVG flags with a permissive license, I highly recommend using the SVGs from Noto Color Emoji: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/tree/main/svg
    comment by warning26 · 2022-02-04
  6. No font in Google fonts does, for instance. At least from their own little demonstrator. There is https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji Noto Emoji which can render the flags but you need to build it yourself
    comment by otrahuevada · 2022-02-04
  7. …colour. You're mistaken, that does not reflect reality. https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/ https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji I have specifically installed this font in my X/Linux system to get colourful emoji.
    comment by bmn__ · 2021-09-03 · in OpenMoji: Open-source emojis
  8. Noto uses Apache-2.0 [1] which should be fine for most stuff. [1]: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE
    comment by AkshitGarg · 2021-09-03 · in OpenMoji: Open-source emojis
  9. FYI: google's are Apache licensed here: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji Twitter emoji (discord uses these also) are open source: https://twemoji.twitter.com/ Both of these are very consistent and good open source emoji. I think…
    comment by davidjfelix · 2021-09-03 · in OpenMoji: Open-source emojis
  10. He's using the Google Noto library for handling fonts: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji EDIT: This is also a really nice font library as well: https://www.emojione.com/ though you have to pay for a commercial license if that's your…
    comment by mrskitch · 2017-10-19 · in Show HN: Screen.rip – API for capturing web screenshots
  11. …is, as you suspected, unlicensed[3]. [1]: https://github.com/behdad/cairo/tree/color-emoji [2]: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/36 [3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22337295/license-of-apple...
    comment by eosrei · 2016-05-25 · in Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com