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Apple Color Emoji is a color typeface used by iOS and OS X to display emoji, a series of ideograms originally created by Shigetaka Kurita for use in Japanese mobile phones. The inclusion of emoji in the iPhone and in the Unicode standard has been credited with promoting the spreading use of emoji outside Japan. Unlike the black & white outline of early emoji, the typeface has full color images for each of the 1407 glyphs it supports. As with many Apple icons past and present, they feature a design based on deep, saturated colors and gradual transitions of color, often incorporating subtle gloss effects. == Implementation == Prior to iOS 5 SoftBank encoding was used for encoding emoji on Apple devices. Beginning with iOS 5, emoji are encoded using the Unicode standard.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FAQ – Emoji & Dingbats )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Supporting iOS 5 New Emoji Encoding )〕 Emoji glyphs are stored as PNG images, at two resolutions using a proprietary "sbix" table.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/ )〕 The font contains a number of Easter eggs. Several glyphs contain portions of the text of Apple's Think different advertisement ("Here's to the crazy ones..."), including 1F4CB "Clipboard" (📋), 1F4C4 "Page facing up" (📄), 1F4D1 "Bookmark Tabs" (📑), and 1F4D6 "Open book" (📖), among others. Other emoji, specified as generic objects, appear as Apple products. For example, 💻 (U+1F4BB, 'Personal computer') appears as a modern iMac, while ⌚ (U+231A, wristwatch) shows an Apple Watch. 🌁 (fog) shows the Golden Gate Bridge behind San Francisco fog, a reference to Apple's California headquarters, and 1F4F0 "Newspaper" (📰)'s headline reads "The Apple Times". A variety of styles are used, presumably to aid legibility at small sizes. For example, 🐬 and 🐙 (dolphin and octopus) are quite stylized with 'button' eyes, while 🐈 and 🐀 (cat and rat) are more naturalistic, resembling watercolor paintings. This mixture of styles creates a range of possible designs: for example, 🐏 and 🐑 (ram and sheep) look clearly different, as do 🐫 and 🐪 (Bactrian camel and dromedary). The different designs may also connect to the fact that only some of the aforementioned animals are on the Chinese zodiac. It has been commented that because the iPhone originally launched in Japan on the SoftBank network, some Apple emoji designs may have been created to resemble those on previous SoftBank phones. For example, 💃 (defined by Unicode as 'dancer' with no specified gender) is female on Apple and SoftBank phones but male or at least gender-neutral on others. The designers of the Apple Color Emoji typeface have not been publicly credited, following Apple's standard practice of not crediting work to individual developers, and former Apple employees have offered varying comments on who drew what, one calling it a 'perennial' project for interns. A few were designed, at least in early drafts, by Willem Van Lancker.〔〔 A redesigned emoji keyboard was released in iOS version 8.3, this update also added varied skin tones and same-gender couples included in unicode 6.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apple focuses on diversity with new emoji )〕 As a result, the more naturalistic emoji faces switch to a neutral yellow skin tone by default, similar to the face emoji.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National flags and racial diversity: iOS 8.3 delivers multicultural emojis )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Apple Color Emoji」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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