- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:31:21 -0700
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, public-webfonts-wg <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:57 AM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: > > 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. This seems reasonable to me, given the overlap in symbols and emoji. ~TJ
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