- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:57:49 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: public-webfonts-wg <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
Currently CSS defines a set of five generic fonts [1]: serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive, fantasy I'd like to propose expanding this to include a generic font for emoji characters: emoji The 'emoji' value would map to whatever emoji font is available on a given platform (e.g. Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, Noto Color Emoji). Part of the motivation here is that when Unicode defined a mapping of emoji characters into Unicode, it explicitly unified some of these with existing symbol codepoints. If an author relies on system font fallback to choose a font there's no guarantee an emoji font will be prioritized over a symbol font, since it's difficult for a user agent to distinguish between symbol vs. emoji usage. Specifying the 'emoji' value in a fontlist would prioritize the use of color glyphs for all codepoints covered by the emoji font. Thoughts? Cheers, John Daggett Mozilla Japan [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#generic-font-families
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