Android ttf

[Qwerty-Space]

Hello,
Is this complete? (or, more complete than EmojiOne2.3?)

And how do I compile an android ttf version of this, so that it can be used on my phone?

[Crissov]

See the documentation for a change log. If there are two graphics on a line, we changed something, otherwise it is a new one.

There are some Emoji 4.0 and Emoji 5.0 (Unicode 10.0) graphics in separate branches. The plan was to merge them when they are complete, which they still are not for lack of graphic designers contributing. This would trigger a new release which would come with font files. If you want to do it manually before that happens, see #167 which I still have to wrap my head around.

[Qwerty-Space]

I still have to wrap my head around.

Then I've got no chance

[Crissov]

It works. The question is just whether the build system should be part of the repository.

[Qwerty-Space]

Why not just has a ttf in the repo, and update it every few months or so?

[mavit]

There are some Emoji 4.0 and Emoji 5.0 (Unicode 10.0) graphics in separate branches. The plan was to merge them when they are complete, which they still are not for lack of graphic designers contributing.

Might smaller incremental releases help stimulate interest from designers by demonstrating that this is an active project? It’s perhaps worth releasing whatever you have at least each winter and summer, so that it could be adopted by each new release of Fedora, Ubuntu, Gnome, etc..

[jbicha]

Why not just has a ttf in the repo, and update it every few months or so?

Linux distros like to build things from source.

[Roboe]

Hey, all. Is this issue still active? I can see there's a recipe for building Android fonts with Travis, but there's no release yet of EmojiTwo, which is unfortunate, :/

Time ago, I built an EmojiOne flashable ZIP (WeAreFairphone/flashable-zip_emojione) for installing the font to Android devices. I'd like to update it to EmojiTwo whenever that's possible.

[Crissov]

New graphics are still the higher priority and I'm failing at recruiting new designers. If or when that is working better, I could put time into making sure fonts are automatically build correctly.

[Roboe]

Thanks for the quick reply. I understand the workload it involves. I'll try to spread the word to a few designers I know, 👍

[hackerb9]

@Crissov could you make a wiki listing the new glyphs that are needed so that people like me who have little time can easily help the project by contributing just one or two SVG files?

[Crissov]

@hackerb9 They should all have tagged issues, but I have not added ones for Unicode/Emoji 11.0 yet. I have also tried to organize them in projects. Does that work for you?

I hope to find some time soon to work on this again.

[hackerb9]

I tried poking around at the Projects and HELPWANTED tags, and couldn't find the list of new glyphs needed.

I was thinking of a simple table, prominently displayed on the EmojiTwo github page, that breaks the work into bite-sized pieces. The idea is to make it easy for people who want to volunteer to quickly see which glyphs are missing so any designer can just pick one to do during breaks from work. The table would probably look like this:

WANT TO HELP EMOJITWO? SEND US YOUR SVG FOR ANY OF THESE:

Codepoint	Unicode name / CLDR	Sample artwork from other fonts	Existing EmojiTwo SVG to base work on	Emojitwo status
U+1F469 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F9B2	woman: medium-dark skin tone, bald			HELPWANTED, see bug report #669

[mavit]

I tried poking around at the Projects and HELPWANTED tags, and couldn't find the list of new glyphs needed.

I believe that the lists that you're looking for are at https://github.com/EmojiTwo/emojitwo/milestones.