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Grey heart emoji (1FA76.svg) is barely differentiable from the white heart emoji (1F90D.svg) #622

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gimleey opened this issue Jul 27, 2023 · 0 comments

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gimleey commented Jul 27, 2023

The current shade of grey in the grey heart twemoji is very light and it makes it hard to differentiate from the white heart twemoji. I propose that we darken the color of the grey heart to aid with accessibility and readability especially in light mode, and with self-expression as the heart emoji is a substantial part of the asexual flag.

Please refer to the below graphic which compares the two twemojis and highlights them on Twitter's three display options.

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The HEX code for the color I am proposing is #8FA0A6 with a CMYK value of 47, 30, 30, 0, however, someone better versed in graphic and web design can probably come up with a better suited color.

The visual issues aside, the decision to make these two emojis so close in shade deviates from how most other providers (save for Samsung) display these two emojis:

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