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Version 2.x of Emojione is no longer supported by Ranks.com. Versions 3 and 4 have slightly different desigsn and new, more restrictive licensing terms. Some people prefer the flat cartoon design and the FOSS license with actual access to the SVG sources.

Emojitwo

The artwork of the second generation of the web's first complete open source emoji set. It is and will stay 100% free and open source.

We need help from graphic designers to make more glyphs! See the milestones, projects and especially the issues tagged character artwork for details. Do not be afraid to ask for assistance, also boldly send pull requests. Every year Unicode aims to release a couple dozen new emojis. Some of them come with gender and skin tone variants, but at least the latter can be generated automatically.

Differences between Emojitwo and Emojione 2.x

Emojitwo is restricted to the artwork, i.e. image files. SVG is its native format. Everything else is derived from that.

Additions

Changes

See the documentation for a more detailed change log.

Removals

Plans

Emojitwo shall eventually include graphics for new emojis: https://github.com/EmojiTwo/emojitwo/milestones

Emojitwo shall adopt a more restricted color palette. Actual changes will be subtle and barely noticable. This will affect flags.

Emojione 2.x Artwork License

Emojione Artwork Attribution

With the release of version 3.0, the Emojione project also made changes to 2.2.7’s licensing. Previously, Emojione did not require attribution for non-commercial and personal use. Considering that the Emojione project only changed the documentation in that branch to mandate attribution in any case, Emojitwo forked a state before those changes for greater flexibility.

For non-commercial and personal use, you should credit the creators. For commercial use, proper attribution must be given on every web page, app, or video description where our emojis are displayed.

Creative Commons Requirements

In section 3(a)(1) of the CC-BY 4.0 legal terms, it lists the following as the guidelines needed to fulfill the attribution requirements:

If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:

Proper Attribution Examples

Must contain:

Also helpful:

Ideal Attribution

Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo, originally released as Emojione 2.2 by Ranks.com with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

Attribution Location

Apps

Websites

Web Videos

Information

Generating New Sprites

The sprites are not automatically updated and should be refreshed locally if you plan to use them. To do this, you must have NPM, Grunt, and ImageOptim installed on your machine.

From the root of the project, first install Node modules: $ npm install

Then generate new sprites and css by executing: grunt Note: the ImageOptim process takes a few minutes to optimize the PNG sprite.

Bug reports

If you discover any bugs, feel free to create an issue on GitHub. We also welcome the open-source community to contribute to the project by forking it and issuing pull requests.

Contact

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns you are also welcome to contact the maintainers and major contributors directly.

Alternatives

We sincerely hope that you choose to use Emojitwo and support our project, but if you feel like it's not for you, please have a look at these possible alternatives: