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[โ€“] peeteer@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are also the colored circles ๐Ÿ”ด,โญ• and ๐ŸŸข. The worst part for me is that while the emojis are technically one char in code, they are usually displayed with a 2-char-width.

[โ€“] Knusper@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I considered the circles, but for folks with red-green color blindness, that difference in shape is essential.

And as for 2-char-width, normally I'd agree, but I could have used โœ“ร— with manually set font color, and well, I didn't.
The emojis are preferable to me, because they stand out from normal text. And they do that, because they are bigger and because their bigger size allows plastic design elements...