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| Tap 👆 | At typing size ⌨️, enter a key into the display 🖥️. Also choose inside the variant strip, and close it by tapping 👆 elsewhere. At the bigger views 🔍 a tap on its own does nothing. |
| Scribble ✍️ | The zoom-out 🔍 step. Stroke one thumb 👍 on the key area: left-right-left-right ⬅️➡️ zooms out. Two flips of direction 🔀 — three strokes along the horizontal — pay one step 👣; keep scribbling ✍️ to keep stepping. There is no vertical scribble: up-down strokes ⬆️⬇️ fire nothing, so they can never fight the downward swipe refresh — zooming in is the double tap's and the pinch's job. A plain drag, or a single back-and-forth ↔️, counts for nothing. |
| Double tap 👆 | The keyboard's own step zoom 🔍. Double tap 👆 the keys and the view steps into the area you tapped: at a bigger view 🔍 it steps in toward typing size ⌨️, centred on the key you double tapped; at typing size it steps back out, keeping that same area in view. Neither tap of the pair picks a key. A single tap 👆 waits a beat ⏳ to be sure it isn't the first half of a double tap, then picks as always. |
| Pinch 🤏 | Two fingers on the pad — the pinch zoom 🔍. Put two fingers down on the keys and spread them apart to step in, close them together to step out — the same stepped zoom, same typing-size floor and same whole-family ceiling as the scribble and the double tap. Each clear stretch or squeeze pays one step 👣; keep spreading or closing to keep stepping. Every step is anchored between your fingers: the key nearest the midpoint stays in view in the landed window. The moment the second finger lands, whatever one-finger gesture was in progress is cancelled — a tap waiting out its beat does not pick, a hold counting toward a file does not fire, a scribble aborts, an armed slide disarms — and lifting back to one finger does not resume it: that finger does nothing until it lifts too. A pinch never picks, stages, deals, or pans, and it works the same in Neutral, Left hand, and Right hand. |
| Hold a key ✋ | At typing size ⌨️, press a key and hold it still ✋ for a moment ⏳: its file deals into the keys in place (see “The record” below). At the middle view only, the same hold arms sliding instead; at the whole-family view the hold does nothing. |
| The shelf 🗄️ | Tap 👆 a key at typing size and the emoji stages onto the shelf up top — six to a line, up to five lines (30), and it stays there waiting. Tap a staged emoji to enter it — entries land in the order your taps fall. Hold a staged emoji and its whole line of six enters in standing order. What enters leaves the shelf and joins the printout. |
| The printout 🖨️ | What you enter collects in the printout — one unit: the entered signs. Its copy button stands up in the top bar — at the bar's right end in Neutral and for the left hand, and at its left end, to the left of the Navigation button, for the right hand. In Neutral the unit sits on top, above the display buttons; in the hand setups it stands on the outside — the far right edge for the left hand, the far left for the right — with the display buttons inside it. The signs stand in Line — all of them on a single line — in every setup; that is the printout's permanent arrangement. The copy button copies the whole printout in one tap 📋 — no selecting, no range, no select-all — and flashes a check ✓ when the copy lands. What the printout holds is text: a plain native sign stands as its character, a variant — a medium's face of a sign — stands as its code in letters (codepoint · the medium's two-letter code), and a symbol with no Unicode code at all stands as its assigned code. The printout shows exactly what Copy carries. The Refresh button clears the printout. |
| The view 👁️ | The View button — the pair of eyes 👀 — tap it and the keyboard cycles Neutral → Left hand → Right hand. The button itself is symbol-only — a little pair of eyeballs whose pupils actually glance left and right — so the setup you are in is named by the note that flashes on the switch and by Diagnostics' VIEW line. Neutral is the horizontal display at the top — staged signs in lines of six over a 6-across grid. Left hand works the keys on the left (5 across) while the printout stands at the right edge of the screen and the display stands as a totem column of display buttons inside it — one button for each key row, each exactly the height of its row — with the right family buttons inside the totem, between the totem and the keys; Right hand mirrors it — printout at the left edge, totem inside it, left family buttons inside the totem, keys close to the right hand. The staged signs are one list in every setup: switch and the same signs re-render — lines of six in Neutral, the column in a hand setup. Tap a display button to enter that sign; hold one to enter the whole column in standing order. Everything else — the gestures, the file deal, Faces, the four buttons — works the same in all three setups. |
| Search 🔍 | The Search button — the magnifying glass 🔍, third of the four top buttons (Navigation 🧭 · View 👀 · Search 🔍 · Faces) — opens the preliminary search. Type ⌨️ in the field and every emoji whose official Unicode name matches the typed words deals out into a results grid in the same style as keys — write broccoli and the broccoli 🥦 picture deals out. Tap a result and it stages onto the shelf, exactly like tapping a key. Matching is by name only — word by word, case-insensitive — with no keyword or synonym layer yet; a word with no match shows a plain empty note. Leave the search by the page's own ⌨️ Back to keyboard button — it stands at the top and the bottom of the search page — by tapping 🔍 again, or through the Navigation 🧭 drop-down, whose Search row is unchanged. And what you selected in the search is not lost: it staged onto the shelf the moment you tapped it, so it is sitting in the display buttons when the keyboard comes back. |
| Faces 🎭 | The right tab cycles the drawing set the keys wear: Native → Google → Twitter → Microsoft → OpenMoji. Pick a picture key and the shelf shows the face you actually picked — that medium's own drawing, never your device's guess at the character. When it enters, the printout writes its code instead — the codepoint and the medium's two letters, like 1F349·GO — because the face stays home and the letters travel: no device out there can redraw letters into its own face. A set with no drawing for a key falls back to the character, and that key picks, stages and enters as a plain native sign, exactly as in Native. |
| The record 📜 | Hold a key at typing size and its file deals into the top keys of the grid in place — no window, no new screen: only as many keys as the file has faces, and every other key keeps the emoji it already held. First the current faces across the mediums — Apple · Google · Samsung · Microsoft · Twitter · Facebook — then skin tones where it has them, then each medium's history faces in the same medium order, newest to oldest. The faces deal bare — no names or dates under them. Tap a face to enter that edition; hold a face and its own deeper detail — codepoint · medium · version · release and retirement — deals in as data cells across the top rows. Deal another key's file and the first file's keys hand their emojis back before the new file lands. Leave the file by dealing something else — tap any family button, or cycle Faces. |
| Shelf buttons 🎛️ | Undo steps back the last staging — or, with the shelf empty, pulls the last entered item back. Clear empties the shelf. Random stages one random emoji. Refresh clears the printout — the entered line, the window of entered signs — completely. It does not re-deal or refresh the keyboard: the downward swipe alone refreshes the keyboard. |
| Sounds 🔊 | The keyboard is not silent anymore — and it greets you: the first touch of the page sounds the hooray — voices throwing a hooray! — once, before anything else: that's the opening, the first sound you hear, and it plays whole — nothing else sounds over it and nothing cuts it short. The browser won't let any page make a sound before you've touched it, so your first touch is the doorbell. If that first touch is itself a tap, the hooray takes the tap's place — one sound for the hello, not two. From then on, taps pop softly — every key tap that stages a pick, and every tap of the keyboard's own buttons (the family buttons, the shelf buttons, the top bar), gives a quiet little pop, the click of the instrument; a fresh tap restarts the pop rather than piling another on top. Gestures stay silent — no pop for a scribble, a pinch, a hold or a slide, and a tap that turns out to be the first half of a double tap never pops at all. When a family is dealt — a family button tap, or holding a key to deal its file — the faces laugh: one laugh per deal, never one per face, taking turns through three laughs in rotation. When a sign enters the printout it lands with a plop — one plop per entry, whether a single sign goes in or a whole line at once. Undo, Clear and Refresh say uh-oh. While a laugh is playing the taps keep quiet — a pop never talks over a laugh. And the motion itself sounds now, too, so the busy moments are never silent: the casino spin of a deal squeaks softly underneath — and the squeaks run all through the inside now: little squeaks all through the motion, a near-continuous chorus while things are moving — and on most deals the dancing faces pick up a low burst of chatter or an extra squeak under their dance, after the laugh has had its moment. Zoom steps whistle or whoop on the way in and boing on the way out; the View button 👀 whoops as it switches, with a soft squeak under the whoop; the Random button springs; search results deal in with a slurp and a soft squeak under it; turning a page gives two quiet pops; copying the printout pops a balloon as the check flashes; and entering a whole line or column at once — a hold on the display — adds a yay to the plop. The mix keeps its order: the motion sounds quietest, the accompaniment low, the events in the middle, the laughs fullest. The sounds only start once you have touched the keyboard (the browser's rule), and if the device is muted or a sound can't play, the keyboard works exactly as it did before, in silence. And some signs carry a sound of their own: a sign with a paired sound speaks when it appears on the keys — quietly, and if several land in one deal they speak in a quick little sequence, never all at once — it speaks when it's picked, its own sound taking the pop's place, and it speaks when it's printed, taking the plop's place. The duck 🦆 quacks, the bell 🔔 dings — the bell pepper 🫑 dings too — the bottle 🍾 pops its cork, the mouth 👄 bwips, the door 🚪 twangs, the keyboard 🎹 runs a xylophone gliss; the whole pairing list lives in Diagnostics. And every laughing face has a laugh of its own now — twelve faces, twelve different laughs: the rolling-on-the-floor face 🤣 gets the helpless fit that can't stop, the tears-of-joy face 😂 its tumbling laugh, right down to the grinning cat 😺, who gets the tiny fairy giggle. Each face sounds its laugh when it appears, when it's picked, and when it's printed — and the laugh that takes turns on a family deal keeps its own turn alongside. The animals speak, too: the dog 🐶 barks, the cat 🐱 meows, the cow 🐮 moos, the horse 🐴 neighs, the wolf 🐺 howls — faces and bodies alike, one voice for the whole family — and a few speak by name-wit: the hot dog 🌭 barks, the teddy bear 🧸 growls, the computer mouse 🖱️ squeaks, the carousel horse 🎠 neighs. The three laughing cats keep their laughs and never meow. And the Egyptian hieroglyphs have one voice between them — all 1,072 of them share a single Arabian phrase, a mysterious merchant's closing figure: pick one or print one and the voice sounds in full; when hieroglyphs land in a deal, the voice sounds once, quietly, however many of them landed. And there is no background sound — nothing loops underneath, ever; every sound happens at its own moment, and the bubbles 🫧 speak only with their paired bubble-plip when they appear, are picked, or are printed. |
| Hold, then slide ✋ | At the middle view only 🔍, the pan 🗺️. Press a spot 📍 on the keys and hold it still ✋ until the note 📝 says “Sliding” — then drag, and the window 🪟 slides over the family so you can look around 👀 without zooming out and back in. The hold ✋ is the gate 🚪: a drag that starts moving right away never pans, and a hold released without moving picks nothing. Neither extreme pans: at typing size ⌨️ you are there to pick, and the hold deals the file instead; zoomed all the way out, the whole family is already on screen 🖥️ — there is nothing to slide. |
Type ⌨️ or paste 📋 emojis here and they go straight into your display 🖥️ — six 6️⃣ at a time, same as the keyboard ⌨️.
One diagram 📊 for all your picks 🎯: a shared year axis 📅, one row per emoji, Apple 🍎 and Microsoft 🪟 side by side at each step 👣. ◆ marks a metamojises — the moment ⏱️ the drawing 🎨 changed. Tap 👆 a point 📍 on a row to read that step. Each emoji is drawn in your own device's 📱 font — today's drawing 🎨; the historical steps link 🔗 to Emojipedia's archive 🗄️, where the old drawings 🖼️ live.
Emojistry watches 👀 Apple 🍎 and Microsoft 🪟 for redraws ✏️ of registered emojis. The watch 👀 began November 7, 2026 📅. When a platform redraws ✏️ an emoji, Emojistry alerts 📣 its holders by email 📧 — and every alert 🔔 points back to this page 📄, where the new drawing 🎨 takes its place in the diagram 📊.
Nothing has been recorded 📝 yet. No platform has redrawn ✏️ a watched 👀 emoji since the watch began — when one does, the metamojises ◆ lands here 📍, and the step 👣 joins the Emojolution 🌀 diagram 📊.
Emojistry is the emoji registry 📖. It assigns emojis 🎯 and keeps the record 🗂️. Emojolution is that record 📜 — every drawing 🎨 an emoji has had, and when it changed 🔄.
For years the pistol 🔫 emoji on phones 📱 was a realistic revolver 🔫 — a real-looking gun 🔫. In 2016, Apple 🍎 redrew it ✏️. No announcement 📣, no asking anybody 🙋. One day your phone 📱 updates 🔄, and the same button 🔘 on the same keyboard ⌨️ now shows a bright green 🟢 toy 🧸 water pistol 🔫. Same code 🔢 underneath. Different picture 🖼️.
If your Totemoji leans on a picture 🖼️, and the company 🏢 quietly 🤫 redraws ✏️ the picture, your sign 🪧 changed while you slept 😴. Emojolution watches 👀 for exactly that — and tells 📣 the people whose signs 🪧 are affected.
Histories 📚 here are sourced from Emojipedia's archive 🗄️.
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The emojis already established ✅ in the registry 📖 — with their codepoints 🔢, their assignments 🎯, and each one's full Emojolution 🌀 in its drop down ⬇️.
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