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Notes on the data this site is built from — emoji releases, artwork coverage, licensing, and the arithmetic behind the counts. Everything here is written from the dataset in this repository rather than from secondary sources.
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Half the emoji list is skin-tone arithmetic
Of the 3,963 records this site indexes, 2,040 are skin-tone variants. Where they come from, and why nineteen emoji make twenty-five records each.
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Five artwork sets, chosen by licence rather than by taste
Every emoji page here shows five drawings, and none is the one on your phone. The reason is redistribution rights, not taste.
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Emoji 18.0 is nineteen records and nine drawings nobody has drawn
Emoji 18.0 adds 19 entries here: nine new characters and ten skin tones. Not one of the five artwork sets has drawn any of them yet.