Face It: Emoji Are Vital in Business This year’s lasting legacy may be how the remote workforce made emoji an integral part of written language. BY BURT HELM , EDITOR-AT-LARGE @ BURTHELM ...

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. More than 50 new emoji will become standard in 2019, based on the final list approved by the Unicode Consortium .

It’s no small task to open-source each of Microsoft’s 1,538 emoji, Friedman wrote. “Similar to how typeface sets include bold, italic, and regular styles, emoji must exist as a SVG, PNG, and ...