Font files

[heftymouse]

It'd be very useful to have pre-built .ttf files available, for use cases like website and app development. Thanks for making this open source, hope you'll consider it!

[spencer-nelson]

Thanks for the suggestion. We are working on the best way to support font creation and maintenance from the files, and will update when we have a concrete plan for it, but don't have delivery of them currently scheduled.

[cassidyjames]

You are likely well aware, but in case you’re not, Noto Emoji have a build system to generate their font files from the source illustrations, and it is open source:

https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

[davelab6]

I'm the program manager for font development at Google Fonts, happy to help with this

[Cequallium]

any update on this?

[yisibl]

Any update?

[HAZARD6896]

I would really love this. I have zero idea how to make fonts 😅 And where are the animated counterparts of the emojis? Emojipedia has all of the animated APNG files. I would really like some kind of file to implement into my sites. Thanks!

[RottenCarrot21]

any update?

[mindplay-dk]

We are working on the best way to support font creation and maintenance from the files, and will update when we have a concrete plan for it, but don't have delivery of them currently scheduled.

@spencer-nelson one year on, what's the hold-up? clearly the emoji font is being built somewhere (it ships with Windows) so why aren't you releasing the scripts? even if they're bad, something would be better than nothing - the community has already indicated they're willing to help.

[yisibl]

• https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/07/12/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-25905/
• https://www.howtogeek.com/159132/the-3d-emoji-are-finally-coming-to-windows-11/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1690250198
• https://support.microsoft.com/help/5030509

[mindplay-dk]

@yisibl heh, yeah, I thought something changed - they're even worse now, my brain doesn't even know what I'm looking at anymore... way too much noise and detail.

can we please good lawd have the build scripts so we can fix this.

if not, I'm swiching to linux. 😥

[Download]

I have created a script in my fork of this repo that can generate the font files:

Have submitted the work as a PR

[mindplay-dk]

@Download thanks for getting this started. 🙂

But the fact that someone has to build this, recreating what Microsoft obviously have and are refusing (or neglecting) to share, it's just a little absurd. Getting something like this to fully work with colors and different file-formats and all - it's not a small task.

Why won't they just release the build scripts. What so secret about those. What sort of corporate policy is currently standing in the way of open-sourcing a build-script for the already open-sourced emoji. Even if these scripts were an absolutely embarrassing mess, it would be better than nothing.

It's just incredibly hard to comprehend why they wouldn't just release this - or at least tell us why they can't.

"we are working on it" - no you're not? It's been more than a year. You clearly had a working script. Even if it's in a bad state, all you had to do was check it into source control and push. I'm sure the community would step up to help.

I hate to speculate, but my best guess at this point, is you have some open-source dependencies that aren't actually licensed for what you're doing? Why else would you just sit on this. 🤔

[Wowfunhappy]

@Download for some reason your script only seems to be generating font files for the flat and high contrast emojis, I don't seem to be getting font files for the 3D ones. Any ideas?

[Download]

@Download for some reason your script only seems to be generating font files for the flat and high contrast emojis, I don't seem to be getting font files for the 3D ones. Any ideas?

See the PR. I commented there.