It’s Mutant Standard’s 1st birthday today! 🙌 🎊
In honour of this, Mutant Standard 0.2.5 is a party-focused update. It also brings even more quality improvements.
Party emoji
Confetti, sparkles, fireworks, explosions, cakes, it’s all in here.
Travel emoji
Most of Unicode’s train emoji are in this release, as well as various emoji relating to travel and places.
Unicode 11 smilies
All of the smilies that were added in Unicode 11 (this year’s Unicode emoji release) have been added.
Various small improvements
Various emoji have been reorganised to make them more predictable and make more sense. Certain emoji designs (mostly food emoji) have been improved.
No more incorrectly sized SVG emoji
Sometimes in releases there were little hitches in the production process that resulted in a few SVG emoji being larger than they should have been (ie 32x33px instead of 32x32px). Orxporter has now been updated with a size checking feature, so emoji with the wrong size can’t make it to the release stage anymore.
Shortcode and Codepoint changes
metro has been renamed to metro_sign (to make room for the metro train emoji in this release, which is called metro.)
Certain animals made in past releases have been given codepoints to correspond to the fact that Unicode 11.0 coincidentally added them too.
You can see all the change details on Mutant Standard 0.2.5’s Trello Board.
Because I intentionally delayed the release of this so it’s out on Mutant Standard’s birthday, work is already underway for 0.2.6, as well as 0.3.0 (which is in a long development cycle).
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