WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]
top | item 32232546

Emoji Kitchen

850 points| liberia | 3 years ago |emoji.supply

190 comments

order
[+] jareklupinski|3 years ago|reply
Tornado Octopus is terrifying https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%99+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B...

Tornado Cherry makes a smoothie! https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%8D%92+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B...

[+] kieckerjan|3 years ago|reply
Tangential, but I can hardly be the only one who thinks emoji are stuck in a preteen mindset, with poop being the naughtiest thing expressible. Which serious language has no words for sex, drugs and the tragedies that haunt a human life?
[+] amelius|3 years ago|reply
Yes, this is because emojis are created by committee. The Unicode committee to be precise.

If instead emojis could be drawn and inserted in messages and maintained and shared through emoji-libraries by actual users, then we would get an actual naturally evolving language. Much more interesting.

[+] BiteCode_dev|3 years ago|reply
They are glyphes. You don't expect the roman letters to individually represent all concepts.

In the same way, emoji are glyphes and just symbols. We will attach meaning to each symbol, combinations of symbols and context, and will express whatever we want with it.

Just like people say "this is the shit", and "this is shit", and it says litterally the opposite of each other.

E.G: we already use the eggplant to talk about sex.

[+] docmars|3 years ago|reply
The gun emoji was converted to a squirt gun en masse because #oh-mai-gawd-guns-evil. Yet a pretty decent chunk of our entertainment in shows, movies, and games include (gasp!) guns that resemble over the top usage against other human beings, which is fine because it's fake and people are smart enough to draw the distinctions.

Emojis though? Nah, not possible. Too triggering.

I'll be sure to ask Google and Apple to ban the Peach emoji when I accidentally bite into the pit and need tooth repair.

[+] npteljes|3 years ago|reply
It's not preteen, it's corporate.
[+] thefz|3 years ago|reply
And if I might add: why do we need multiple colors for a heart or multiple hearts? One wasn't enough? Are we going to cover all the drinks know by mankind or one generic "alcoholic" drink was okay? What about flowers? Do we need to cover them all or a generic "flower" pictogram is enough?
[+] sph|3 years ago|reply
It's not a language, you're not supposed to write Shakespeare with emojis.

In technical parlance, human language is Turing-complete, emojis are a limited scripting language to expand our expressive ability.

Nobody is replacing Objective C in macOS with Applescript.

[+] zeristor|3 years ago|reply
I guess an emoji could be proposed for grief, that is a tricky question in itself. There is a system to go through to add new emojis, it does seem to be very hard work now.

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

I was going to say something as intense as grief is too much for emojis, but it would mark the maturing of the glyphs.

[+] astura|3 years ago|reply
What a weird comment - there's multiple drug emojis (syringe, pill, whisky, beer, cocktail, cigarette, sake), tragedies (gravestone, sad faces, sick faces, hospital, ambulance, bandage, casket, skull and crossbones). There's even a middle finger.

The sex ones are peach, eggplant, squirt, bed, volcano, pointing finger hand followed by ok hand, lips, and love hotel.

[+] andrepd|3 years ago|reply
Oh but there is

>Sex

Aubergine and peach, various "horny" faces

>Drugs

The leaf, the clouded face, the syringe

[+] 12ian34|3 years ago|reply
I'm not a big user of emoji outside of Slack reactions, but I do enjoy that many emoji have become euphemistic of things like sex, drugs and tragedy, e.g. the syringe, the aubergine, the herb leaf etc.
[+] hiptobecubic|3 years ago|reply
If i understand correctly, this is developed by Google and shipped with their keyboard. They aren't going to start suggesting custom lewd stickers to people.
[+] Forge36|3 years ago|reply
Drugs, <needle>, <pills> Death has four, Sex is a lingo. <Eggplant>, <splash>

(I don't know why I emojis to post)

Creating pictographs of ideas isn't easy.

[+] mgdlbp|3 years ago|reply
Like Newspeak in euphemism then, but retaining ambiguity.

Plus a committee that can retroactively change what people have said.

[+] saimiam|3 years ago|reply
Hindi has words but not commonly used and understood slang for many of these concepts.
[+] teddyh|3 years ago|reply
Well, there’s always U+0130B8.
[+] sasaf5|3 years ago|reply
Again, trying to eliminate grief by decree. And then we wonder why everyone is depressed. If negative things are so undesirable, why do we represent them in the arts?
[+] aadvark69|3 years ago|reply
and yet it's extremely commonplace to represent sex or drugs using existing emojies
[+] phailhaus|3 years ago|reply
This is incredible, how did you pull this off? I love what you did with the favicon and the page title too!
[+] labster|3 years ago|reply
It should be possible to make a font that combines these with ligatures, right? It’s kinda sad for these to be limited to one app.
[+] derefr|3 years ago|reply
Most of these "do the obvious", but the thing+itself combinations are a lot more fun.
[+] forrestthewoods|3 years ago|reply
Are these all done by hand? That’s a stupendous amount of custom work.
[+] matsemann|3 years ago|reply
Are these downloadable somewhere? Would like to add some of them to Slack / other apps.

Edit: Apparently "Emoji Kitchen" is a thing made for a Google keyboard, and this web page is just a frontend to show those.

[+] solardev|3 years ago|reply
This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen on the internet.
[+] xnx|3 years ago|reply
And you can typically combine any emoji with itself to make an even more version: https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%98%88+%F0%9F%98%88=rt
[+] Moldoteck|3 years ago|reply
Neat. I made a Telegram bot so that all users get access to these emojis: @emojimixingbot It works only in inline mode
[+] AnonC|3 years ago|reply
Edit: Never mind, I figured out that inline mode means invoking the bot in any chat by typing @emojimixingbot and then typing two emojis. The mixed emoji then appears as a sticker that can be sent. The bot does not respond to emojis sent to it directly (in the chat with the bot).

Previous question (now irrelevant with my answer above): What’s inline mode, and how exactly would one use this bot?

[+] mrtksn|3 years ago|reply
Neat. A bit tangental but I'm curious, where do you host it? Is there a gold standard for these bots, like everyone writes them in Node and hosts them on DO kind of trend?
[+] lopis|3 years ago|reply
Amazing, works great!
[+] warning26|3 years ago|reply
It's nice to see these outside of GBoard! Some really creative designs.
[+] nayuki|3 years ago|reply
This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_64:_The_Crystal_Shards#G... :

> Kirby 64 introduces Power Combos, the option to combine Kirby's copy abilities. Power Combos can be created by inhaling two enemies at once, by throwing one ability at another, or by spitting an enemy at another. The latter two methods create a colored star that can be collected to obtain the Power Combo. There are 28 possible combinations, which are stronger than normal copy abilities or have added effects. For instance, by combining the "Burn" and "Needle" abilities, Kirby can shoot fire arrows. Players can also mix two of the same abilities, which will increase their power.