Google shows us the design of a new, more inclusive emoji that would arrive on Android in 2022

Every year they arrive new emojis to our Android devices, adding new expressions, professions, animals, objects, and above all to make them more inclusive to reflect the great diversity of society.

Currently we can change skin tone of practically most emojis of people or parts of the body, but there is an important emoji that still does not allow to change the skin tone: the handshake.

The inclusive handshake

When Emoji Creative Director at Google Jennifer Daniel joined the Unicode Technical Committee she wondered why there was no skin tone support for the handshake. The Unicode group seemed stuck on how to make this happen, so Jennifer Daniel got down to business looking at a possible implementation.

In November 2019 he presented the documentation, with its possible solution to that problem of coding 25 possible combinations handshake, which is the only emoji that currently doesn’t allow you to change skin tone. And his solution was to add the right hand and left hand emojis whose combination results in the multiracial handshake.

When Jennifer Daniel presented her proposal at the end of 2019, it was expected that they will reach Unicode this year 2021, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the evolution of the Emoji versions by six months. Trust the multiracial handshake to come to Emoji 14.0 in the year 2022, with what would already arrive in a future update for Android 12, which is expected to be update emojis through Google Play. If not, we would have to wait for Android 13.

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