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Jennifer Daniel
Personal blog · jenniferdaniel.substack.comculturedesign
Jennifer Daniel writes Did Someone Say Emoji?, a personal blog at jenniferdaniel.substack.com about culture and design. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Emoji Kitchen Bot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link her Substack for the Emoji Kitchen introduction and how-to, and as a source on emoji design. One commenter notes she chairs the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee and works at Google.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
🌹| Unicode Emoji Subcommittee-Chair | Blob Necromancer | Emoticon Lorax | 𓀟 𓀥 𓀠 𓀤 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣.
Most-linked posts?
- Emoji Kitchen Bot7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-07-18
What Hacker News says?
> To use it: You need an Android phone (sorry Tim Cook!!) 1. Download and install Gboard 2. Open it and set it as the default keyboard on your phone 3. In Gboard's settings check to make sure that Emoji, Stickers & GIFs > Suggestions while typing > Emoji is enabled. This is what ensures that the feature is on :-) 4. Tap two emoji in your keyboard and it suggests a combination of those two emoji https://jenniferdanie…
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on “Emoji Kitchen”Submitted Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0 as a story · 205 points
HN discussionAre they free? The following makes it sound like these websites pirate the graphics, so that wouldn't work for a keyboard for the App Store. >If you have an Android device I recommend downloading Gboard and giving it a whirl. If you don't have a phone running on Android … you could consider getting one lololol or trying it out on a number of unofficial websites (tsk tsk! I don't approve!!! :Face-with-Symbols-on-Mout…
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on “Emoji Kitchen”Submitted The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think as a story · 158 points
HN discussionThe combinations are the work of a very talented team. (See https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc... ) This viewer is just a small hack to let you look through what already exists : ) Source: https://github.com/alcor/emoji-supply/tree/main/docs/kitchen
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on “Emoji Kitchen”Submitted The Emoji That Nearly Weren’t as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJust want to add that Jennifer Daniel, the author of this post, is an amazing person and wonderful human being - aside, a great artist too. Checkout her substack: https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/ See also: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/11/1024802/jennifer...
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on “Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color”Submitted Why do some emoji look familiar? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUneducated guess--somewhere someone will have archived the discussion--but I wonder if the technical complexity was also a factor. If you've made the combining characters for gender, and you've designated which characters can combine with them, but you didn't plan for characters that must be combined only in certain ways, then you're looking at having to specify all that out, and then implementers will have do their…
Comment linking /p/did-someone-say-new-emoji
on “Rejected Emoji Proposals”Submitted Emoji Kitchen Bot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs far as I know this is mostly the work of [Jennifer Daniel]( https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc... ), who is the chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee and works at Google. She's great! She did create all of the emoji mashups for the first version of emoji kitchen by herself. I don't know if she had help for the current version, which features many more emoji combinations.
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on “Emoji Kitchen”Submitted The Past and Future of Flag Emoji as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Loudly Crying Drowns Out Tears of Joy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Century of Chaos in a Single Emoji as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2026 Emoji Submissions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Emoji: Distorted Face as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can keyboards operate at the speed of digital communication? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing: Emoji Kitchen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing: Emoji Kitchen as a story · 1 points
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