Comment by 🦂 zzo38
Re: "A Treatise On Monochrome Emojis"
I would prefer to not have emoji at all (which could be done by using a font that lacks emoji), but monochrome would also do, having them displayed like ordinary text characters. It is true that flags work better with colours, although I could do without the flags. (What I would be more likely to want is being able to use fonts of arbitrary character sets and not only Unicode.)
Feb 05 · 3 months ago
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🛸 bluesman [OP/mod] · Feb 05 at 21:55:
@skyjake It's definitely a balancing act.
@zzo38 I once (briefly) thought about a non-emoji mode with a mouse hover tooltip displaying either the emoji and/or its description. I suppose that's arguably a violation of the spec though. I'm guessing you're not a fan of this particular capsule design.
— maskugatiger.flounder.online/gemlog/maskugatreasure.gmi
I am not so sure that the non-emoji mode you describe is a violation of the spec if it is not the default mode (it doesn't make additional network accesses or spy on you or prevent the user from doing something or anything like that), although it is also not what I suggested. Merely displaying nothing, or the Unicode number in a box, should be good enough.
☕️ tenno-seremel · Feb 06 at 18:14:
TBH, I don’t know most flags, so letters inside flags (how it is with Noto Emoji) are much more understandable to me.
🛸 bluesman [OP/mod] · Feb 06 at 18:38:
@tenno-seremel That's cool. I promote the color emoji sets in Alhena but it absolutely supports monochrome font emojis (in case that wasn't clear in my original post).
Original Post
A Treatise On Monochrome Emojis — Here and elsewhere I've read monochrome emojis are the absolute bees knees and the only way to view Gemini pages while maintaining one's smol integrity. I've seen this enough that I'd like to put out a public service reminder that Alhena supports not only four different color emoji sets but also monochrome emojis via the Noto Emoji font. On MacOS, you can even choose between Noto and the system's color font for a total of six emoji options. The nice thing...