‘Face palm’ included in 38 new emoji headed our way!

Posted by: admin , May 22, 2015

It’s reported that 38 new emoji have been approved, including ‘selfie’ and ‘face palm’, but we will have to wait until Unicode’s planned 9.0 update in June 2016!
Unicode is a Californian consortium of developers and designers that standardise characters and emojis across all operating systems.
It’s reported that the consortium’s emoji subcommittee finalised the additions and submitted them to members for approval earlier this month.
Some of the new additions include ‘rolling on the floor laughing’, ‘handshake, ‘shrug’, ‘clinking glasses’, ‘bacon’ and ‘pregnant woman’.
A post by Sam Biddle at Gawker reportedly inspired some of the new emoji, with Unicode even referencing some of the images in that article.
These updates follow the recent additions as part of Unicode’s 8.0 update, which included different skin tones and a taco!
Check out the links below for a full list!