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      <title>Half the emoji list is skin-tone arithmetic</title>
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      <description>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.</description>
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      <description>Every emoji page here shows five drawings, and none is the one on your phone. The reason is redistribution rights, not taste.</description>
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      <description>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.</description>
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