Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts][css-text] Variation Selection of Colorful (Emoji) or Monochrome Glyphs

@litherum If I understand the UTC correctly, they consider the VS solution a clutch and would like higher-level protocols (like CSS) to take precedence. Richard Ishida @r12a is W3C’s (i18n) liaison contact for Unicode – I didn’t find anyone else to ping at Github (e.g. Addison Philips, Unicode’s Rick McGowan or Mark Davis, Apple’s Peter Edberg, except for Google’s Markus Scherer @markusicu) who may know better [whom to ask].

@AmeliaBR With your proposed wording, `text` (or `monochrome`) would still result in colorful emojis if the first font in the stack that has any support only has colorful glyphs. This behavior may be okay for `auto`, but not for `text`, because authors and users need a way to suppress colorful emojis altogether.

I’m not sure about this, but maybe another preference should be covered by the respective property as well: **bitmap versus vector glyphs**. As you may know, Apple and Google are currently using PNG-based emojis, whereas Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe (and W3C) back vector-based solutions. [Opentype 1.8](https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otff.htm#otttables) standardizes all of them.

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