This week Apple launched its beta update iOS8.3, featuring a redesigned emoji keyboard with ethnically diverse skin tones for your smileys based on the Fitzpatrick scale – a dermatology standard adopted by the Unicode Consortium.
Other changes include same-sex and childless couple icons, plus an extra 300 non-human characters.
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Ageist
Tan-ist. Orange is clearly missing.
Orange is the new black?
Hoop is the new Orange
Excellent! the opportunities for accidentally causing race based offence have been multiplied greatly. Hurrah!
Cannot wait for the outrage here when the blackface smiley is used
It’s not “blackface” when their face is actually black. Then it’s just their face.
Did they miss a few intermediate shades there, the racist b*stards?
The Simpsons…
What?! No interracial same-sex couples with multiracial disabled children?!
… http://youtu.be/ral6qI1h6Z4
Parental advisory: away with the fairies.
When they were just smiley faces, they didn’t offend anyone.
Smiley faces in all the wrong places …
Where’s the orangey faces for the Irish model set on Instagram then?