What the fuck? In a working paper submitted to the Unicode consortium , which manages the emoticons, Mark Davis (of the Google company) and Peter Edberg (of Apple), have dropped a pavement in the pool. Their report released on Tuesday, November 5, 2014 denounces the uniformity of our emoticons.

Earlier this year, a petition was circulating on the Web, asking Apple for a greater variety of emoji on the Mac's IOS keyboards: these small figures that inhabit our smartphones and come to give pep's to our SMS. The reproach: they all have the same shape (round) and the same color (clear). It must be said that originally these emoticons or emoji are Japanese. As a result, the Unicode consortium, which manages emoticon figures, will create new faces for 2015 . Their colors range from light beige to dark brown, like the Fitzpatrick scale, used in dermatology.

Concretely, to get these new tones of emoticons, it will be enough to carry out a update of Unicode, available from June 2015 . Then, those who want to change the usual yellow of their smiley will have only to choose the color that they prefer among the proposed shades.

After ethnic diversity, it would be interesting to think about developing these same emoticons in their feminine version.