Samsung Emoji

Platform-Specific

Samsung's custom emoji designs shipped with Samsung Galaxy devices, historically known for dramatically different interpretations.

Samsung creates its own emoji designs for Galaxy phones and tablets, separate from Google's Noto Emoji used on stock Android. Samsung's emoji have been notable — and sometimes notorious — for interpreting emoji quite differently from other platforms.

In earlier versions, Samsung's designs were significantly different: the "grimacing face" looked happy, "cookie" looked like a cracker, and many emoji had a cartoony, outlined style. Samsung has gradually aligned their designs closer to other platforms.

Samsung is one of the most-used emoji sets globally due to Galaxy's large market share, making cross-platform emoji consistency an ongoing concern.

Related Terms

Apple Emoji Apple Emoji
Apple's proprietary emoji designs used across iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS, known for their detailed, skeuomorphic style. Google Noto Emoji Google Noto Emoji
Google's open-source emoji font family used on Android, Chrome, and available for anyone to use in their projects. 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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