You know how you feel when you wake up exhausted? When you just know you have bags under your eyes? The next slew of emoji look likely to include a Smiley face that mirrors how you look and feel.
A new batch of emoji have just been previewed by the Unicode Consortium, giving us a clear idea of exactly what is likely to be coming to Apple’s next big emoji update—though they aren’t likely to land until next year.
The artwork is not Apple’s final versions, understand, so we can expect emoji that look very different to the images released today. Apple’s emoji are always polished and detailed. Sometimes the company reveals some sneak previews on World Emoji Day, which falls on Wednesday, July 17, so we may only have a few weeks to wait before we see just how evocative Apple’s “Face with bags under eyes” looks.
The uses for such an emoji are many and this, I’m sure, will be a very popular choice. The suggested keywords associated with the image are exhausted, sleepy and tired, which sums up how the emoji looks.
The new range has a fingerprint emoji which, in these days of security and identity theft, will prove very easy to use. The sample image cleverly includes a question mark in the middle—did you see it?
There’s a harp, which has obvious musical uses and is one of the chief symbols of Ireland, so it’ll make a less clicheed emoji than a four-leafed clover, perhaps.
And then there’s a leafless tree, handy for invoking the change in the seasons or the second act of Waiting for Godot, of course.
Other new emoji include a shovel, a beet and a splatter.
And there’s one more, but intriguingly, it doesn’t have a sample image just yet. It’s a flag for Sark, an island in the Channel Islands that is British but sits off the French coast. It’s also, as anyone who has read Mervyn Peake’s novel Mr Pye will tell you, one of the few remaining places in the world where cars are banned from roads. Though you can get around on tractors, bicycles and horse-drawn vehicles.
Perhaps the emoji will become a byword for quaintness and quiet.
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