Symbella variants

[Ezra]

Nika's symbella used to be a nice flat black maple leaf and then developed color for some reason all by itself.

Gem's symbella also shows color on my device. Assuming this is unwanted, does it improve at all if you append a U+FE0E text-variant-selector character?

[Throne3d]

Apparently phpBB doesn't like me trying to post symbellas and/or the U+FE0E symbols on the forum – it gave me an error when I tried.

At least on my device (Android 5.1, Firefox for Android), it makes no difference as to how they're displayed (that is: Gem as text, maple leaf as emoji, lightning bolt as emoji). I put a thing up on Theotrics with the following HTML code:

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♦ 🍁 ⚡ (alone)<br />
♦︎ 🍁︎ ⚡︎ (text, after)<br />
♦️ 🍁️ ⚡️ (emoji, after)<br />
︎♦︎ ︎🍁︎ ︎⚡︎ (text, surround)<br />
️♦️ ️🍁️ ️⚡️ (emoji, surround)<br />
︎♦ ︎🍁 ︎⚡ (text, before)<br />
️♦ ️🍁 ️⚡ (emoji, before)

It seems to all display identically.

[DanielH]

They all display identically to me (Opera on Android). I think the issue with emoji is inconsistency, not color, right? Websites can control how emojis are displayed with various JavaScript packages, I believe, but I don't know any more about them. They presumably replace the relevant characters with pictures. That is probably the way to handle this on the Constellation.

[Kappa]

I don't see any of those characters as emoji.

[Ezra]

And I see all 21 in bright color. So I guess that's a "no, doesn't help".

[Alicorn]

I see all diamonds black, all maple leafs color, and two (third and fifth) lightning bolts color.

[Adelene]

I see all the diamonds in black, second and fourth maple leaf black and the rest color, and third and fifth lightning bolt in color and the rest black. *shrug*

[Ezra]

So the variant selector after is helping a little bit.

[Marri]

On Chrome Android, they're all the same: shaded/3D black diamond, red slightly tilted maple leaf, blue box with white lightning strike.

On Chrome Mac, they're almost all the same: all have a flat 2D black diamond, all have a red-orange maple vertical maple leaf, all have a yellow lightning strike except "text, after" and "text, surround" which have the angry box of death.

On Firefox Mac, the diamonds and maple leafs are identical to Chrome Mac. The lightning strikes are all flat 2D lightning strikes except "emoji, after" and "emoji, surround" which are the yellow lightning strikes from Chrome Mac.

I've heard that replacing emojis with images can be questionable, because companies legit own the rights to their emoji libraries; I'd have to look into it before I installed any such on the Constellation.

[Throne3d]

You could find a free font that supports those emojis, maybe, and have a consistent text emoji (get an image of it, I mean, and use that)?