When the news hit Monday that Apple's next update for the iPhone would have 300 new emoji, the most exciting part was that we'd finally get a more diverse selection of skin tones for the human emoji.

Mockup of emoji skin tones with colors based on the Fitzpatrick Scale. (via Emojipedia) According to Unicode, the international coding standard that ensures symbols and letters appear uniformly across ...

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...

As my daughter and I bobbed in our pool floats, I wondered when my wife, still inside the house, was going to join us. I’d left my phone ashore, so I tapped into messages on my smartwatch. I navigated ...