When the news hit Monday that Apple’s next update for the iPhone would have 300 new emoji, the most exciting part was that we’d finally get a more diverse selection of skin tones for the human emoji.

Mockup of emoji skin tones with colors based on the Fitzpatrick Scale. (via Emojipedia) According to Unicode, the international coding standard that ensures symbols and letters appear uniformly across ...

There are five skin tone emojis to choose from, but doing so can open a complex conversation about race and identity. Which skin color emoji should you use? The answer can be more complex than you ...

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...