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UPDATE 2023.09.21 If you’re looking for Google’s Emoji Mixer, go visit https://www.google.com/search?q=mix+emojis and click “Get Cooking” Combine two emojis into one. Thousands of combinations are available Some fun combos in there 😅 Emojimix — Combine two emojis into one → Related: On the web, you can position two emoji on top of each other to …
Now this is a fun time-waster: Where’s Waldo (Wally) using Emoji 🙂 Using p5.js the emoji get randomly drawn onto a <canvas> Feels — Find all the feels in this hide ’em up. →
background-clip Demo: Text with Animated Emoji
Fun demo by Elad Shechter: See the Pen Background-clip: text with Animated Emoji by Elad Shechter (@elad2412) on CodePen. Behind it are two techniques: The 👻 emoji is set as the background-image of the text. To do so one must wrap it inside an SVG, and successively inject the SVG using a Data URL. To …
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Recently I saw this tweet by Marco Denic fly by: CSS tip: Did you know that you can use your own image, or even emoji as a cursor? pic.twitter.com/P25wSJ0ui6 — Marko ⚡ Denic (@denicmarko) January 6, 2021 To use an emoji as the cursor you can’t simply type in the emoji though. /* ❌ This …
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Fun pen by Jakob Eriksen in which he combines Emoji and CSS Custom Properties to create an Emoji Customizer. The reason that this works is because of the fact that emoji can have modifiers. Skin Tone and Hair, as used in the demo above, are such modifiers. Using the ZWJ (“\u200d”) you can glue all …
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Great “hack” popularized by Lea Verou (but first discovered by Leandro): if you place an emoji inside <text> in an SVG Favicon you instantly have an Emoji Favicon 🙂 Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how to turn any emoji into a favicon.svg: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 100 100"><text y=".9em" font-size="90">💩</text></svg> Useful …
Last Friday Max Lynch sent out this tweet: I'm still not over Apple killing the best emoji there ever was pic.twitter.com/gVOMhEP3Mn — Max Lynch (@maxlynch) March 15, 2018 Inspired by an idea that first came to my mind after seeing these emoji compositions using the 😎 emoji, I quickly replied that it’d be perfectly possible …
Gitmoji is an initiative to standardize and explain the use of emojis on GitHub commit messages. Using emojis on commit messages provides an easy way of identifying the purpose or intention of a commit with only looking at the emojis used. Next to the guide there’s also a CLI binary to help you perform commits …
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In succession to Split emoji text effect with CSS (which has received an update by now BTW), PixelAmbacht has created a nice Emoji composition using the U+1F60E Smiling Face With Sunglasses emoji (😎) as the key modifier. Note: For some mysterious reason the original demo yielded a blank page for me. Changing the font-size to …
runes – Unicode-aware JS string splitting with full Emoji supportAt Small Town Heroes I’m currently working on a newsreader app built using React Native. On Android (even 7.1.1) we noticed this weird issue where some emojis would render incorrectly when we were applying styling on it using index-based ranges: the range seemed to be off by one, splitting the emoji into its separate bytes. …
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