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Google's new monochrome emoji font features the return of everybody's favorite blobs
It's two hits of nostalgia in one convenient package
These days, no platform is complete without support for emoji. Those modern emoticons help us express all sorts of feelings, emotions, situations, and more. More than any company, Google has embraced emoji wholeheartedly, adding support for the latest inclusions without even needing a software update and developing Emoji Kitchen as a way to design your very own creations. Today, the company has unveiled another emoji font, this time as an old-school throwback with the inclusion of everyone's favorite blobs.
Google's polishing up its emoji — probably for Android 12
Nearly everything outside of faces has been tweaked or entirely redrawn
Google delivers its Android and Chrome OS emoji through the open source Noto Emoji project, and its latest release is a big one. Our last update arrived back in September, and now this new revision is making tweaks all over: refining colors and textures, updating shading and positioning, and covering everything from numbers and symbols, to fruits and veggies.