TRANSPARENCY
Image Sources & Licensing
Where EmojiDex artwork comes from, what we host, and how vendor designs are shown for reference.
EmojiDex is transparent about image sources. Unicode emoji characters are standard text; platform designs are separate creative works owned by vendors. We only host third-party artwork when an open license explicitly allows it.
Unicode data
Emoji names, categories, and code points on EmojiDex are derived from the Unicode Emoji standard and related Unicode data files, combined with editorial descriptions written for this encyclopedia.
Unicode is a registered trademark of Unicode, Inc. EmojiDex is not affiliated with the Unicode Consortium.
Hosted open-licensed artwork
For platform comparison previews, EmojiDex loads SVG artwork from public CDNs for these vendors only:
- Google â Noto Color Emoji
- Microsoft â Fluent Emoji
- Twitter / X â Twemoji
Attribution details:
- Asset
- Google emoji preview SVGs
- Source
- Noto Color Emoji (Google Fonts / noto-emoji repository)
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Creator
- URL
- https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji
- Asset
- Microsoft emoji preview SVGs
- Source
- Fluent Emoji (Microsoft open-source emoji set via Iconify mirror)
- License
- MIT
- Creator
- Microsoft
- URL
- https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji
- Asset
- Twitter / X emoji preview SVGs
- Source
- Twemoji (jdecked/twemoji)
- License
- CC-BY 4.0
- Creator
- Twitter / jdecked
- URL
- https://github.com/jdecked/twemoji
Twemoji is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Where required, we provide attribution on museum and comparison pages.
Vendor artwork (not hosted)
Apple, Samsung, Facebook/Meta, and other proprietary emoji sets are not hosted on EmojiDex servers. When you see those platforms in comparison views, the glyph shown is your device's native emoji font â a reference preview only.
Those designs remain the property of their respective owners. Emoji comparisons are provided for educational and reference purposes.
Site branding and original content
The EmojiDex logo, museum exhibit text, collection curation, stories, and page layout are original site content unless otherwise noted. Favicon and marketing graphics created for EmojiDex are owned by EmojiDex.
Questions
Licensing or attribution corrections? Contact us through the contact page and choose the licensing topic.
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