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Guide to enable system-wide Emoji support on Ubuntu 🤩

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1. Install Fonts

sudo apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji

2. Add Font Configuration

Open ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/01-emoji.conf file in an editor.
Copy-paste the lines below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

3. Flush Font Cache

fc-cache -f -v

4. Restart the programs (e.g. web browsers)

5. Check

Visit this link 🧐 to check the emoji list.

6. That's it! 🤗

IMYdev commented Jul 7, 2026

I create a gist to facilitate the testing. You can test like this:

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/seupedro/6c569a59aefc2023d7767e229f90ff96/raw/486c2a57ff7b7cb733cedf0445158346438fc93c/emoiji-list-15-unicode-single-line.txt

This makes testing really convenient, thank you.