Emoji sets

Eight sets. One browser each.

Emoji are font glyphs, not images. Each of our browsers has exactly one colour-emoji font installed, so the set is a request parameter — not whatever the server happened to have.

Ten emoji rendered with the Android set

Android

"android"
Ships on Android and Google products

Google's Noto Color Emoji, as shipped on current Android. The set that redesigned the blobs away, and the default on most Linux servers — which is why so much of the web is accidentally rendered in it.

Pick it for android-facing product shots, and anywhere you want the picture to match what a Pixel would draw.

Ten emoji rendered with the Apple set

Apple

"apple"
Ships on iOS, iPadOS and macOS

Apple Color Emoji — the glyphs most people picture when they picture an emoji, because most people compose them on a phone that draws these.

Pick it for anything whose audience is on iPhone, and any mockup that has to look like a real iOS screen.

Ten emoji rendered with the Blobmoji set

Blobmoji

"blobmoji"
Ships on Nothing, any more

Android's original blobs, retired by Google in 2017 and kept alive by the people who never forgave them for it. Gboard still hides a few.

Pick it for nostalgia, and any piece about how emoji rendering differs — the blobs make the point in one picture.

Ten emoji rendered with the Twemoji set

Twemoji

"twemoji"
Ships on X, Discord, WordPress and much of the open web

Twitter's open-licensed set. Flat, high-contrast and unmistakable — and, because the licence is permissive, the set a great many sites deliberately load for themselves.

Pick it for social preview images for X, and any brand that already uses Twemoji on its own site.

Ten emoji rendered with the WhatsApp set

WhatsApp

"whatsapp"
Ships on WhatsApp on every platform

WhatsApp draws its own emoji rather than the host system's, so the same message looks the same on an iPhone and on an Android — and looks like neither.

Pick it for anything mocking up a WhatsApp conversation, where the system set would immediately read as wrong.

Ten emoji rendered with the Samsung set

Samsung

"samsung"
Ships on Samsung Galaxy devices

Samsung One UI ships its own set over Android's. On the best-selling Android handsets on earth, this — not Noto — is what a person actually sees.

Pick it for design QA for a Korean or European mobile audience, where Galaxy share is high enough that the Android set is the wrong preview.

Ten emoji rendered with the Facebook set

Facebook

"facebook"
Ships on Facebook and Messenger

Meta's in-app set, drawn rounder and warmer than the system emoji it replaces inside the app.

Pick it for preview images for Facebook, and mockups of Messenger threads.

Ten emoji rendered with the Microsoft set

Microsoft

"microsoft"
Ships on Windows, Teams and Office

Segoe UI Emoji — the flat, geometric set on every Windows desktop, and therefore on most of the screens in most offices.

Pick it for documentation and product shots aimed at a desktop-Windows audience.

Asking for one.

Every device preset already picks the set its device would draw. Name one explicitly and it wins — “this page on an iPhone, but in Twemoji” is a fair request.

{
  "url": "https://moxial.ovh",
  "preset": "iphone",
  "emoji_set": "twemoji"
}