Emojis that may be used instead of an icon for applications

app_emojis.txt

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https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/components/close-button/

Hi Jeanne, Jennifer and Yiying, Thank you for your initiative. I don't know to whom to ask my question but looks like you may help me with an advice. I would like to propose to create a set of emojis for basic application buttons. I'm a regular developer and worked on a many different desktop applications and websites for last 15 years. And for all my entire career I always had to solve the same problem: finding icons for buttons in an application UI. Sometimes just basic icons like Save, Edit, Add, Delete was hard to find because most of icons in web are paid or using some license that denies to use it or had some "themed" style that differs from other icons in the app. When I become a web developer this problem become even worse: any icon must be downloaded as a separate file which makes performance bottleneck. I had to create "png sprites" to download all icons at once and then use weird CSS tricks to show them. Also there must be enabled caching and the icons ideally must be downloaded from a separate CDN server to offload bandwidth to the main site. As a common solution today our industry uses FontAwesome (https://fontawesome.com/) which is another kludge for the problem. It creates a special font where instead of letter are shown icons. They can't have multiple colors so their monochrome style looks ugly. But at least this solutions is easy to use. I also worked on few console TUI applications and there it's impossible to use any icons or special fonts so I first time decided to use an emoji and it worked pretty well. But the main problem is that there is lack of such emojis. I can use ✏️Edit ❌ Delete but many others are missing like New Document, Find and Replace or file types. What I really looking for is something similar too Tango Icons (http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Desktop_Project) which was a first known for me project that created a set of open source icons. Those icons covered many needs but looked unusual and now most open source programs are using their own icons or no any icons at all. So my main question is: how do you think, is it possible to initiate a process of creation some set of emojis to be used in applications and websites as icons in UI? This differs a lot from initial intent of emojis to be a replacement of smiles. But I believe this will give a huge impact on the whole software industry and improve most websites performance and creates a single UX language. Does it makes any sense for you? Or this is not a proper way to use emojis.

From [email protected]:

Unfortunately, Unicode has an explicit policy of not taking UX/UI elements and turning them into emoji. This has a lot to do with the fact they are not considered to have longevity.

Thought I’m sympathetic to your plight! And think there is value there, but not through the emoji process.