

ASCII has more characters than what you find on a typical keyboard, to say nothing of the millions of characters within Unicode. The fact is, keyboards were designed for a 26-letter (or thereabouts) alphabet along with as many numerals and symbols.

To get set up, launch GNOME's Settings application. I'm using Google Noto Color Emoji in this article. On Ubuntu or Debian, use apt search instead. Google-noto-emoji-color-fonts.noarch : Google “Noto Color Emoji” colored emoji font Google-noto-emoji-fonts.noarch : Google “Noto Emoji” Black-and-White emoji font Google-android-emoji-fonts.noarch : Android Emoji font released by Google Twitter-twemoji-fonts.noarch : Twitter Emoji for everyone Unicode-emoji.noarch : Unicode Emoji Data FilesĮosrei-emojione-fonts.noarch : A color emoji font

There are many to choose from, so do a search for emoji using your favorite software installer application or package manager.įor example, on Fedora: $ sudo dnf search emojiĮmoji-picker.noarch : An emoji selection tool You must also have an emoji font installed. Welcome to the communityįor this easy method, you must be running Linux with the GNOME desktop.
