Monochrome Emoji

Design & Typography

Single-color, outline-style emoji rendering that displays emoji as simple text symbols without color.

Monochrome emoji are the text-style rendering of emoji characters — simple outlines or symbols in a single color (typically black). This is the "text presentation" form of dual-presentation characters.

Monochrome emoji are useful in contexts where color isn't appropriate or available: terminal emulators, plain text documents, monochrome displays, and accessibility scenarios.

Google's Noto Emoji (without "Color") provides a high-quality monochrome emoji font. Adding VS-15 (U+FE0E) to an emoji character can force monochrome rendering on platforms that support it.

Related Terms

Color Emoji Color Emoji
Full-color emoji rendered using bitmap images or color vector graphics, as opposed to monochrome text-style rendering. Text Presentation Text Presentation
The rendering of a character as a monochrome text symbol, either by default or when Variation Selector-15 is applied. Variation Selector (VS) Variation Selector (VS)
Unicode characters (VS-15 U+FE0E and VS-16 U+FE0F) that modify whether a character renders in text (monochrome) or emoji (colorful) presentation.

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