April 21, 2020

Emoji Improvements and Efficiency

The emoji font has been replaced with the Mozilla twemoji-colr font and converted to WOFF2. This brings a couple bug fixes. First, the 0-9, *, and # keycaps and the eye in a speech bubble now render correctly. Further, this brings color emoji support to Chromium based browsers. Finally, the size of the new font file is 15% the size of its previous iteration (2.9 MB -> 422 KB) while retaining full coverage.