November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 382 | Use Full-Color Emoticons |
Emoji are similar to emoticons you might already use: things like :-) for a smiley face, for example. The difference is that they’re full-color high-quality images, and they’re usually distributed as a special font. They’re popular in Japan and are rapidly spreading to the West.
OS X includes default support for Emoji, as does iOS, the operating system that runs the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Therefore, you can add them to email messages, for example, and text documents created with apps like TextEdit, although apps such as Microsoft Word don’t currently support Emoji.
Emoji can be inserted using the Special Characters palette, which you can activate in most apps by clicking Edit→
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