Lemojis!

[Silken Healer]

I really don't like geek4 nor geek5, I don't think they fit in with all of the other Lemojis, I'd really rather you added geek2/3, FWIW

[Simon]

Added shrug.

... and I would prefer the number of smileys cut in half, and both of you should instead discuss what to cut. With every new smiley, two old smileys should be moved away, until the number in the main post form is under 30-40. Who needs 30 even.

Why do I bring this up? I'm reminded of the last such political stuckage. I was annoyed that was too hard to see, and offered as a replacement. Proxima didn't like the and as a result we kept the and added both -- the worst possible outcome. Proxima is forced to see other people post the and I am forced to load all three on the post form. What bloat. To this day, I'm still considering to just cut two of them from the post page, and put them in "more" or hide them altogether. But which to cut ...

See the issue? Either I or Silken or WillLem will not get what he wants.

Silken has reasoned what he wants and compared it with the yellow Twemojis. And he has offered his own interpretation with the orange glasses (that I rejected because the glasses were too small/would blend in). This is considerable preceding work and it's impossible to ignore, and gives substance to his own rejection (that the geek4/5 will not fit in).

I have the power to add/remove smileys, and that makes me biased. But nobody else will word the issuse similar to how I want to word it. Therefore I will argue:

Are the glasses too big? You must exaggerate in cartoons. Don't like how the glasses now line up with the face outline? Make the glasses even bigger. Or thicken the frame. With 3 pixels of frame thickness, you can even color the inside and keep the black outline.

Or are the old smileys too similar to each other? To make geek fit in, mix/exaggerate the haircuts/mouths/... of the existing smileys? That would be my preferred solution even.

It's hard. See attached geek6, a mishap with even bigger glasses, with a haircut that looks like a sitting rabbit, and with the buckteeth. I don't expect either feature to be better than 2/3/4/5, and I'd choose geek4 over geek6. But I hope it nudges somebody to say something useful.

-- Simon

[Silken Healer]

See the issue? Either I or Silken or WillLem will not get what he wants.

I think I and WillLem would both be happy with geek2

Silken has reasoned what he wants and compared it with the yellow Twemojis

That was just for the Santa hat Lemoji, not for in general. Although that being said yes I probably would prefer for all the Lemojis to be similar to one another too.

And he has offered his own interpretation with the orange glasses (that I rejected because the glasses were too small/would blend in).

I think you are getting mistaken. That wasn't me. WillLem made the orange glasses geek, and I changed them to gray glasses to ask if that would make them better.