Hey! After some research, I managed to (semi) successfully manually compile a Mutant Standard emoji font. This is really exciting! This was a small test to test my (still incomplete) research though – it only contains two emoji. Like how orxporter recolours and exports thousands of emoji, we need software that can process and put […]
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The beginning of fonts
(This is a mirror of the Patreon post of the same name because I realised that relying on Patreon is a bad idea but I didn’t wanna delete that post either) Hey, I’m starting to get into emoji making some more again, it’s still really hard and exhausting after my burnout in November, but I […]
Cooption thoughts
This is a backburner thought, but I’ve contemplated shaping Mutant Standard’s encoding standard over the long term to somehow prevent easy use (and thus cooption) by corporate entities.
Mutant Standard S2
Police and Border Patrol emoji – The Mutant Standard view
Continuing with my tradition of making blog posts about why certain emoji that are in the Unicode Standard are not and will never be in Mutant Standard, I have decided to talk about the very first few emoji I decided to exclude – police and border patrol. With police, I’m mainly bullet pointing this because […]
Orxporter is now open source!
Orxporter – the software that’s used to batch recolour and export all of Mutant Standard’s emoji – is now open source!
Mutant Standard 0.3.1
Happy halloween!~ This release contains fun new objects, furry emoji and more as well as introducing a bunch of exciting new package types and some unexpected technical improvements.
Permanence, negligence, IDK
CW: the generic state of world politics, violence, a degree of pessimism.
Sticker Sheet Prototypes – Photos and Thoughts
The prototypes for the sticker sheets came the other day, and I’m very happy with them!
Why Unicode emoji isn’t (and shouldn’t be) a reliable communication mechanism
I often hear a particular undercurrent of attitudes or beliefs when I hear various discussions about Unicode codepoints and Unicode emoji symbols, and to me, as an illustrator and a designer (ie. a visual communicator), and someone who is trying to navigate their place in the world of languages, I find that these attitudes usually […]