Apple’s New Emoji Have Varying Skin Tones!

24 Feb 2015 by Jasmine Stone in Apple, Communication, Culture, Design, Gadgets, Language, South Africa, Tech/Sci, World

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The future holds exciting times for Apple users: you will soon have multi-racial emojis on your phone. If you have been stressing about not having a black Santa come Christmas, your woes are over.

Need a princess who doesn’t resemble the majority of the ones at Disney? It’s simple.

Any human icon can get a new skin tone if the user taps and holds the character.

The skin tones now come in six shades and “are based on five tones in the Fitzpatrick scale, a dermatology standard adopted by the Unicode Consortium”. That may very well be, but I still think the yellow is a bit awkward.

There are also the additions of same-sex couples and couples without children, and South Africans can now elate in the fact that there is a South African flag.

The emojis are available with Apple’s second OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3 beta updates.

[Source: The Verge]

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