The yellow color is just the neutral default — the same color as the race-less smiley-face emoji — and doesn't represent a skin color. "Bright yellow as the default made no sense if it was ...

Here, take a look a red smiley: And a blue one: And now a yellow one: Which one is easier to make out the details on? The yellow one by far. Ergo, it makes sense for it to be the default emoji color.

Why are we so fond of picking up one of the yellow ... reflect an emotion when body language and facial expression cannot be directly conveyed face-to-face in that moment. “An emoji using ...

especially since emoji are so embedded in the fabric of everyday communication. The yellow hue may be racially neutral when employed for a simple smiley icon with two round eyes and a mouth ...

Yellow, a color completely absent from the skin tone swatch scale that Unicode uses. Check it out. The basic, round smiley emoji we're all familiar with has a yellow base: Now consider the base ...

It’s a modern interpretation of emoji’s previous default: the little yellow man. The number of emoji has ballooned to over 3,000 since the original 176 symbols were released back in 1999.

I've never actually used an emoji, let alone arranged brackets ... How can you hope to squeeze the heaving emotions of life into a tiny little yellow face (or the "cream white, moderate brown ...