JoyPixels have released version 8.0 of their freemium emoji set, introducing support for the 2022 emoji list including the 🩷 Pink Heart and 🫨 Shaking Face emojis.
All of the 32 new emojis included in JoyPixels 8.0 are drawn from September 2022's Emoji 15.0 recommendations.
Additionally, over 500 different emoji designs have been revised in this update. These revisions include reworking the majority of emojis within the 🐻 Animals & Nature and 🚀 Travel & Places categories, as well as revising a series of subtle color tweaks to many prominently black emoji designs to improve their compatibility with devices running in dark mode.
Such large-scale revisions have been a hallmark of JoyPixels' updates dating back the when the vendor used the name EmojiOne.
🆕 New
Although JoyPixels 8.0 contains just 31 new emojis, there are emoji additions across each of the major emoji categories.
Firstly, within 😃 Smileys & People there is one new smiley face and two new complimentary hand gestures (both of which support the standard five skin tone modifier options).
The 💕 Symbols category has also received five new additions, three of which are colorful new heart emojis.
The 🐻 Animals & Nature has received the largest new additions in today's release, with six new additions.
Additionally, the 🍔 Food & Drink category has two new emoji additions that straddle the line between nature and foodstuff: a 🫛 Pea Pod and the root from a 🫚 Ginger plant.
Lastly, JoyPixels 8.0 has two new additions in both the ⚽ Activity and 💡 Objects categories - two musical instruments (a 🪈 Flute and 🪇 Maracas) and two appearance-focused items (a 🪮 Hair Pick and a 🪭 Folding Hand Fan).
🆙 Changed
🫡 Saluting Face has been changed to only show half of the smiley, like the current Apple design.
The 😶🌫️ Face in Clouds now features more substantive clouds.
🤏 Pinching Hand is now facing the opposite direction, matching the directionality of this emoji in other vendors' designs.
🖤 Black Heart now as a light grey outline.
The 💂 Guard emoji now features a taller bearskin.
🧑🦽 Person in Manual Wheelchair now has a red frame on their 🦽 Manual Wheelchair.
🐴 Horse Face now has more realistic eyes and muzzle.
The 🐙 Octopus no longer features cartoonish eyebrows, eyes, and or smile. It also now shows only six legs, like most other major vendors.
The 🚊 Tram emoji is now colored yellow like the 🚋 Tram Car emoji, as per other vendors' designs.
🛸 Flying Saucer now features an 👽 Alien pilot like the current Apple and Google designs.
🏕️ Camping has a different style of ⛺ Tent which is closer in design to those of other emoji vendors.
🗻 Mount Fuji no longer features any trees or water at its base.
🎱 Pool 8 Ball has had
🧦 Socks are now white with teal rims, and no longer feature a 💩 Pile of Poo emoji pattern.
☢️ Radioactive no longer features a black outline.
The 🚺 Women’s Room symbol is now featured on a pink background.
📶 Release
JoyPixels 8.0 is available now. Like previous JoyPixels updates, it is available on a freemium basis, with licensing required for some but not all usage types.
Read more about the 8.0 release announcement and related licensing details on the JoyPixels website.