Emoji Font

Platform-Specific

A digital font file containing color emoji glyph designs, using technologies like COLR, CBDT, SVG, or sbix for rendering.

Emoji fonts are specialized font files that include color glyphs for emoji characters. Unlike traditional fonts that contain monochrome outlines, emoji fonts use various color font technologies:

- **Apple Color Emoji** (sbix): Bitmap images embedded in font
- **Noto Color Emoji** (CBDT): Color bitmap data tables
- **Segoe UI Emoji** (COLR): Layered color vectors
- **Various** (SVG): Scalable vector graphics in font

When your browser or OS renders an emoji, it looks up the character in the system's emoji font and renders the corresponding color glyph. Multiple fallback fonts may be checked if the primary font lacks a glyph.

Related Terms

Color Emoji Color Emoji
Full-color emoji rendered using bitmap images or color vector graphics, as opposed to monochrome text-style rendering. Emoji Size Emoji Size
The display dimensions of emoji in different contexts, which vary by platform, application, and rendering context. OpenType OpenType
A font format developed by Microsoft and Adobe that supports color emoji rendering through multiple color table technologies. Platform Rendering Platform Rendering
How different platforms (Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.) display the same Unicode emoji with their own unique visual designs.

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Compare how emojis render across Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, and more. See visual differences side by side.

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