35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

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  • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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    3 months ago

    For example, on the dark background of the UI I am viewing your comment on, The $ symbol is in white colour (as the font has been set).

    But the emoji is dark grey, and wouldn’t be visible if I had a cheap, low contrast monitor.

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      3 months ago

      For me it looks like this:

      So the text one appears the same for both of us but the emoji one appears differently which could possibly change its meaning if they were different enough

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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        3 months ago

        Probably because the emoji fonts don’t change their colour with the font.color, which normal characters do.

        And your browser is using a different font from mine