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Licenses and attribution

Required attribution, not a courtesy page

Every emoji picture on this site is somebody else's drawing. Five open-licence artwork sets are bundled here and served from this origin — inlined into the page or requested as a static SVG — and each one requires attribution as a condition of that. This page is that attribution, and it is the reason the pages above are lawful rather than a courtesy appendix to them. Where a set's licence requires more than attribution (OpenMoji's share-alike clause, for example), that is named below too. Nothing here is legal advice; each licence's own text, linked below, is the actual agreement.

Artwork

Every file below is redistributed with its geometry unchanged -- the same paths, points and colours the vendor ships. What is not unchanged: each SVG is run through SVGO to strip comments, embedded metadata and editor-only data, rename every element id, and drop the fixed width/height attributes so the artwork scales from CSS instead of a baked-in pixel size. None of that touches a rendered pixel, but it is a modification, so it is named here rather than left implicit.

OpenMoji's CC BY-SA 4.0 licence adds a share-alike condition on top of plain attribution: a derivative built from OpenMoji's artwork must itself be released under CC BY-SA 4.0 (or a licence Creative Commons has designated compatible with it), not under more restrictive terms -- it binds only work adapted from the artwork itself, not unrelated content merely shown alongside it.

  • Twemoji

    Twemoji began as Twitter's in-house emoji set. Twitter/X archived the original repository in 2023; jdecked/twemoji is the actively maintained continuation, still updated to cover new Unicode emoji releases. Its style is flat colour with a heavy outline.

    Coverage
    What this set draws
    Source
    jdecked/twemoji
    Licences
    • MIT (code (the build/publishing tooling in the repo))
    • CC BY 4.0 (artwork (what pickemoji uses))

  • Noto Emoji

    Noto (“No Tofu”) is Google's emoji set, designed to render every Unicode emoji rather than fall back to a missing-glyph box. Its style is flat colour with rounded, geometric shapes.

    Coverage
    What this set draws
    Source
    googlefonts/noto-emoji
    Licences
    • SIL OFL 1.1 (the compiled font file (not used here))
    • Apache 2.0 (the SVG artwork and tooling pickemoji uses)

  • OpenMoji

    OpenMoji is an open-source emoji set from the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd (a German design school), created by Benedikt Groß, Daniel Utz and more than 70 students and outside contributors. Its style is a flat, outlined "sticker" look with a consistent stroke weight.

    Coverage
    What this set draws
    Source
    hfg-gmuend/openmoji
    Licence

  • Fluent Emoji

    Fluent Emoji is Microsoft's emoji set, built to its Fluent design language. pickemoji uses its flat colour style. It ships no country or subdivision flags at all — not a resolver gap on this site's part, the set genuinely does not draw them.

    Coverage
    What this set draws
    Source
    microsoft/fluentui-emoji
    Licence
    • MIT (artwork)

  • Blobmoji

    Blobmoji, maintained by GitHub user C1710, revives Google's original rounded “blob” emoji design after Noto Emoji replaced it with a flatter style in 2017. It is a community fork built on Noto Emoji's own pipeline, not an official Google project.

    Coverage
    What this set draws
    Source
    C1710/blobmoji
    Licences
    • SIL OFL 1.1 (the compiled font file (not used here))
    • Apache 2.0 (the SVG artwork and tooling pickemoji uses)

Region flags: a separate licence within two of these repositories

A repository's top-level licence does not automatically cover everything inside it. Two of the five sets above, Noto Emoji and Blobmoji, do not draw their own country and subdivision flags -- those come from a third_party/region-flags bundle vendored inside each repository, carrying its own LICENSE file, separate from the licences that cover the rest of each project (SIL OFL 1.1 for the font, Apache 2.0 for the SVG artwork and tooling -- see the Artwork section above; neither repository is purely Apache 2.0 once the font is counted). That bundle's licence states the flags were downloaded from Wikipedia and checked to be in the public domain or otherwise exempt from copyright -- not a Creative Commons, Apache, or OFL grant, no attribution clause of its own, but credited here anyway because it is a distinct source with a distinct licence, and treating it as covered by the surrounding repository's licence would be inaccurate. The bundle covers country and subdivision flags only; each vendor draws its own 8 generic flags (checkered flag, triangular flag, crossed flags, and so on) itself, under that vendor's own Apache 2.0 licence like the rest of its artwork -- those 8 are not from this bundle and are not public domain.

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Pick Emoji is an independent reference site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Unicode Consortium, Google, Microsoft, X Corp. (or Twitter, Inc.), or the OpenMoji project. Each name above refers to the maker of the artwork or data credited under it, named for accurate attribution only.