{"id":13837,"date":"2016-03-11T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=13837"},"modified":"2016-03-11T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:30:16","slug":"emoji-fonts-use-undocumented-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/11\/emoji-fonts-use-undocumented-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Emoji Fonts Use Undocumented Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openradar.me\/23299609\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.openradar.me\/23299609\"><p>As a result, people are looking for ways to create a TrueType font containing Emoji bitmaps. This font will be embedded in iOS and OS X native apps. Conceivably, it could also be used as a web font.<\/p><p>Using Emoji as a part of a product&rsquo;s branding is not dissimilar to Apple&rsquo;s own use of Myriad Pro in marketing materials and San Francisco on devices. A font plays a huge role in a customer&rsquo;s perception of a product.<\/p><p>The problem is that there is no documentation on how to generate an Emoji font that can be used with iOS and OS X.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Apple&rsquo;s tools for working with fonts on OS X have not been updated since October 10th, 2011. They do not support Emoji. If Apple has a internal tool for constructing these fonts, it would be very helpful to third-party developers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2016-03-11): See these tweets from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjtsai\/status\/708330498981023744\">Rosyna Keller<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Hockenberry: As a result, people are looking for ways to create a TrueType font containing Emoji bitmaps. This font will be embedded in iOS and OS X native apps. Conceivably, it could also be used as a web font.Using Emoji as a part of a product&rsquo;s branding is not dissimilar to Apple&rsquo;s own use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[257,133,31,1137,30,1199],"class_list":["post-13837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-emoji","tag-font","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13839,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions\/13839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}