I found a radio station playing all of the music I grew up with, and I realized several times that I'm now old enough to understand the English lyrics easily
I had to fight with myself to not add more details to the bird emojis, but now I've not only gotten used to it, this art style is also growing on me. This is more like how emoji should be: simple and easy to read. The emojis I've made so far aren't bad, but they obviously don't work at "normie emoji sizes" rather than "fun side of fedi emoji sizes".
I'm thankful for all the nice replies, but also let me clarify something: I didn't think of it as complaining. People can have their opinions and share them without demanding anything, and that's the usual attitude with these posts. I also don't think I'm infallible so it can be helpful if someone points out a flaw I missed. It can be annoying when it's about things I already spent a lot of time thinking about or when this is the best I can do, but how are they supposed to know?
The problem is that I want to make emojis without a border for once. If you look at or or most other of my emojis, you'll see that they in fact have one. White borders don't work because on dark backgrounds, what they do is pulling all of your attention and blinding you to the actual emoji itself. It would be harder to read than without a border.
Honestly, a lot of it also comes down to emojis as a concept just being overall not well thought-out. I recently complained about how they're handled in software, too.
What we need are two things: - Emoji variations that are selected depending on the background. This would fix many design issues. - An API to enumerate emojis so that software devs don't need to reinvent the same thing over and over and over again. Applications only need to ship their own emojis because they can't detect if an emoji is available or not. It wouldn't look good if there were Unicode character placeholders in the picker.
