Did you know that new #Emoji can be proposed by anyone, simply by following some guidelines laid out by the #Unicode consortium? There's a time window each year where they accept proposals, and a select few might make it into future sets.

This year I turned one in: "Circuit Board", which I was surprised to find 1. didn't exist and 2. had not been proposed before (though CPU and Microchip have both been submitted and declined in the last 5 years)

You can read my proposal here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/greg-kennedy.com/Proposal%20for%20Emoji%20%E2%80%9CCircuit%20Board%E2%80%9D.pdf

and you can see the Unicode emoji proposal guidelines here:
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

Anyway, the odds aren't great of getting accepted, but if it IS then you can say "hey! I know the guy who submitted that one!"

Attached are the sample images I drew up for the proposal - which, incidentally, are now Public Domain as well. Enjoy!

@greg
Good #emoji proposal!

I always worry how they’ll “read” at 18 px

If someone has to pick them out of a lineup the colour is great, but such things may need some perfect design for people to see what they are

See FAX MACHINE 📠? ROLODEX 📇? PAGER 📟?

(Thank you 2000s emoji developers)

We just did PHONOGRAPH but got denied too 😔

Tried to simplify the image

Maybe they didn’t like the trademark Grammy/RCA confusion?

Or our comparing w/ other emoji
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/an0z2lff1106uav3fhhat/Proposal-for-Emoji_-PHONOGRAPH-RECORD-PLAYER-July-30.pdf?rlkey=gbh7mz16ylwac71nm8cqb1al7&st=27pzloxj&dl=0

@AccordionBruce Ah that's unfortunate! I reviewed the big list of denied proposals and there's quite a lot in there, so I don't have much hope in this one getting through. But at least I can say I tried :)

@greg
Pretty sure the 🪗 will be the most widely seen accomplishment of my life

Until/unless my kids do something fabulously famous/infamous

@greg
Totally worth doing the proposals either way. I love the genre combination of “Serious academic research grant” and “Please let billions of people use my tiny cartoon” 🙏🏼
#emoji