Gitmoji: Add a custom font to be served by the gitmoji website

[kevin-dedaniya-rcrm]

Original title: Adhesive Bandage(🩹) emoji not working properly on Ubuntu 18.04

[vhoyer]

Yeah, this also happens for me, does anyone know a font that has support for this emoji?

[carloscuesta]

😱 Based on the spec it was added on 2019, so there should be some font that includes that as an emoji 😓

[vhoyer]

Yeah, personally, I have a problem with emoji fonts on my system, so the gitmoji site does a fallback through the fonts and, for me, uses the Noto Color Emoji, and apparently, this file does not have the adhesive bandage emoji... :confused:. (I also didn't find any font that could render this emoji either, but I think I don't know how to search for it ...)

[vegerot]

Should a requirement for a new gitmoji to be added to the spec require a certain availability of the emoji on common fonts in OSs?

For example, if the default font with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (gnome) does not support it, should that disqualify the proposed gitmoji? (this gitmoji would not apply in that case)

[carloscuesta]

Previously I was very up-to-date on the Emojis releases and I rejected some proposals due to incompatibility or being to new. However I did not thought about this for that specific case 😓 .

I don't think the rules should be based on the default font of any system. We should base the criteria on the emoji support that GitHub and GitLab have, because under the hood they convert emoji characters to an image:

[vhoyer]

Ok, I have to say that I simply updated my browser and now I have support for the missing emoji :eyes:

[vhoyer]

actually, more than that, I also redownloaded Noto Color Emoji file and reinstalled onto my fonts and restarted my computer, I'm not really sure what part of it was a solution to this, but there it is.

Hey, @carloscuesta, what do think if we ship a fallback font for emojis alongside the website?

[carloscuesta]

We can try to serve a fallback font at the website, or just try the image fallback, I will take a look into it. However emojis not being rendered on the website is not a "big deal" compared to introducing emojis that are not supported by GitHub.

[vhoyer]

Or even a default emoji font, this way we can choose colors with good contrast between the default font and the emoji background, which is not happening here, for example:

|card|card with the emoji text selected|
|-|-|
| ||

[carloscuesta]

Yes! Not a big fan though to depend on external fonts as the main resource for perf reasons but will take a look into it.

[carloscuesta]

I'm still considering options for this! I've found a font (which is not released yet) that we're going to implement it as soon as they came out!

Just for reference, here's what I found – https://sensa.co/emoji/ I think it is really beautiful 😍 . Signed up for the waitlist a week ago

As soon as they release the font I will work on this issue 😊