ooh.directoryNov 4, 2023
Phil Gyford

If you know things about Google web fonts and emoji and have nothing better to do… recently the Noto Emoji font has stopped working for me on https://ooh.directory, with Safari and Firefox either not rendering particular emoji, or not using the font for some. Works fine in Chrome!

I explain it in more detail here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77422583/googles-noto-emoji-font-not-being-used-for-some-emoji-in-some-browsers with a test page of all emoji at https://archive.gyford.com/temp/emoji.html

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Nov 4, 2023 at 3:54pmIvory for Mac
Show threadPhil GyfordNov 6, 2023

It looks like Firefox not rendering some Noto Emoji font characters is a bug https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/issues/391

Still not sure why Safari is having problems with the font but I appear to have solved it by generating my own, much smaller, subset of the font and using that instead. It works.

I wrote up how I did that https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2023/11/06/subset-emoji-font-python/

Firefox Mac: some icons in Black and white Noto Emoji appear in colour · Issue #391 · googlefonts/noto-emoji

Many icons in Noto Emoji black-and-white appear in colour when it is used as a webfont in Firefox. Safari and Chrome show b/w glyphs only, as expected. The colour glyphs are from the system Apple C...

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