Access and Use Emoji in Mac OS X
Emoji are extremely popular picture characters and emoticons that are an integral part of Japanese tech culture and communication, and now with OS X Lion onward (yes, Mountain Lion and 10.9 too), the Emoji character set is available to everyone on a Mac regardless of your localization settings. They’re quickly taking the world by storm with their inclusion on the iPhone and iPad keyboards as well, and using them on the Mac is a fun way to emphasize dialog and messaging between people. Some of the characters are pretty funny so even if you have no intention on using them they’re fun to browse through.
- From almost any Mac OS X app, select the “Edit” menu and pull down to “Special Characters”, or hit Command+Option+T
- From the character choices, click on “Emoji” and then choose a set: People, Nature, Objects, Places, Symbols
- Select the character you want to use and either drag and drop the Emoji character into a text field, or double-click on the icon in the “Font Variation” menu on the right
You’ll notice that not all third-party applications will accept or recognize Emoji characters, but all of the OS X compatible apps that come from Apple do and most apps updated for Lion & Mountain Lion and beyond should too.
If the app doesn’t support Emoji display, nothing will be shown, and similarly if an emoji icon is sent to a user who doesn’t have a Mac or iOS device that supports emoji, nothing will be shown for them either, at best it will be a boring old square box instead of the color icon. Keep that in mind if you’re sending messages or posting the emoticons to the web, since a lot of other people using older Macs and Windows machines won’t be able to see them the same way as you do.
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Outside of the Mac and onto the mobile side of things, Emoji is included from iOS 5 onward for everyone too, meaning any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch will be able to see and send the icons the same.
Have fun!
Shows up for me in Safari 5.1, but I can’t think of any genuine use for these.
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Maybe this one
๐ they don’t show up for me when I’m looking at tweets in twitter. Neither in the twitter app proper or either of the browsers (safari or chrome)
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Cute but a little gross
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thx for the post!! very helpful!
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These won’t show up in anything but Lion or iOS – your Windows friends and anyone without the font won’t see your cutesies…
That’s OK, they’re missing out. ๐
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I prefer msn’s emoticons. More facial expression emojis would be great ๐๐
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Super helpful! Thanks
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No offense to the writer or whomever, but the use of EMOJI icons have been in use since OS X 10.4 You don’t need Lion for this.
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I love Emoji 2… Does it have that too?
Of Course not! Emoji 2 is an app while emoji is a built in function and the emoji app is a scamโโ๐ข
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how do i get more characters with g-mail?
hello??
๐ Thanks for the tip. I had been accessing emoji the long way, so really never used it. ๐
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