Lemojis!

[Silken Healer]

Also, as I mentioned previosuly, I think these should be added if and only if.

1. The geek only has orange glasses
2. The shrug is animated

both of them need those features to be able to distinguish what they are

[WillLem]

Well, the polls haven't had a massive amount of engagement, but there seems to be support for adding the :shrug: and :geek: Lemojis. Can we go ahead with this?

[WillLem]

Another Lemoji suggestion (see attached) - :xmas:

Also, a reminder about :shrug: and :geek: (quick link).

[Silken Healer]

I was just about to mention this from your post in the "[RELEASE][2.4 UPDATE] RetroLemmini - A brand new version of Lemmini for 2025!" thread before you said so yourself. If I may say so, I really like this one. It's probably the best one out of :shrug: :geek: and :xmas:.

[Simon]

is relevant and easy to see. I'll add it as :santa:, not as :xmas:. Both are short and clear, but :santa: is more precise.

The point of the excercise is to familiarize myself with the smiley management. I've never implemented my 2019 ideas and ccx was the only admin to add anything. I promised to be a groundskeeper first and to take good care of your lemmings, and uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

I make no statement yet about all the other backlogged ideas here.

-- Simon

[Silken Healer]

Before you add it I made this alternate version, what does everyone else think?

[Simon]

I have no preference between WillLem's santa and Silken's santa. Among these two, I'll put what others want.

In posts, both santas will look the same to me anyway. On this principle alone, we can already rework or toss 10-20 existing smileys.

-- Simon

[Silken Healer]

I have no preference between WillLem's santa and Silken's santa. Among these two, I'll put what others want.

I always appreciate in emojis when emojis are based on simple modifications of another emoji. For example on Twemoji, this emoji:


Is actually just this emoji:


With teeth and glasses added on.

I always thought that was a nice touch, so I wanted to make the Santa emoji be based off of the classical Lemming . I don't see the need to create a new eyes expression for it. Actually I think the eyes might be from ?

In posts, both santas will look the same to me anyway. On this principle alone, we can already rework or toss 10-20 existing smileys.

Good idea for both the Santa and for the other emojis. I would feel a bit sad losing some emojis, and I always think it's better to avoid changing hotlinked things as much on principle just in case. As you say, there is a lot of overlap though, so maybe it's worth it.


If WillLem can send the santa hat on it's own prehaps we can make more Santa emojis e.g. Santa .

I make no statement yet about all the other backlogged ideas here.

In hindsight, after thinking on it more, I'm really not sure about :geek:. Orange glasses really don't convey geek to me. As for :shrug: I'm not sure if we should have both the animated and non-animated, one of them, or neither. I guess we already have animated emojis with non-animated counterparts e.g. , , , and the animation does convey shrugging more, so that would make sense. So if we use that precedent to chop down the decisions I'd probably say an animated shrug is fine.

[WillLem]

Mine or Silken's is fine. Let's try and get those :geek: and :shrug: emojis included as well.

[Silken Healer]

If this helps it get added, I've created a version of :geek: with a more typical, neutral glasses colour.

[Simon]

You want the glasses to consume 30 to 60 percent of the space. In posts, people must see it without bending forward. You're designing smileys, not tile-based levels. Don't put minute details. Put huge blatant features.

You want a contrasting color for the glasses, not a blending-in color. A standard trick for more contrast is a thick black outline.

Compare it with the santa hat; it satisfied both and there had existed nothing like it.

-- Simon

[WillLem]

Here's some better versions of :geek:

Both have bolder glasses than the original. geek2.png gives the lenses a blue tint (inspired by Velma from Scooby Doo).

I stand by my original versions of :shrug:, both animated and non-animated.