To kick off World Emoji Day, we asked USA TODAY employees what their favorite emoji stories were.
(Photo: Apple)
The new characters, which will be rolled out alongside the iOS 12 update later this year, include red, gray and curly hair options as well as a new emoji for bald people.
Animal lovers will enjoy new additions like the kangaroo, peacock, parrot, and lobster, while foodies can send their friends a mango, lettuce, cupcake or moon cake.
Previews of new Emojis from Apple (Photo: Apple)
The new designs are based on approved characters in Unicode 11.0, created by the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit group that decides what and when new emojis will be adopted.
The announcement came just ahead of the fifth annual World Emoji Day, the brainchild of Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia, an online catalog of emojis.
Previews of new Emojis from Apple (Photo: Apple)
The psuedo-holiday celebrated each year on July 17 — the date shown on the calendar emoji — is meant to "promote the use emojis and spread the 😋 enjoyment that they bring to all of those 👬👫👭 around us,"
according to Burge's website.
Burge said he thinks people will be most excited about the new hair style options as there's been an increased demand for more inclusive emojis.
Previews of new Emojis from Apple (Photo: Apple)
"As soon as you include people in any emoji set you’re going to have, rightly so, more people that wanting emojis that look like them," Burge said. "Those are always going to be the more popular, the inclusive ones."
Although he's partial to the upside down smiley face, Burge said he doesn't have a favorite emojii. He also hopes Apple will introduce a sausage emoji to beef up their breakfast options.
While the holiday started small, more and more companies involved in the emoji scene are starting to celebrate, according to Burge, while people often throw parties or bake emoji-themed cakes.
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