Accordion Emoji, coming to phones in 2020

[AccordionUprising]

As I hoped a bit ago: Accordion Emoji Project (real)

An Accordion Emoji did get approved! So over 2020 it will become available to use it on some phones and computers all over the world. A bit of fun. Feel free to let your online accordion friends know. 

Theyll be in phone updates for Windows, Google and Mac computers. It may take until the Fall of 2020 for some systems. Nobody has to use them, but theyll be there. Right now (Feb 2020) it just shows up as a blank block for me ?, but should work as computers are updated.

The irony of announcing this here is that different places treat this kind of symbol differently, and bulletin boards like this one may not show them at all. Ah well.

For fun I wrote about the process of applying for the emoji here:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/accordion-emoji-coming-in-2020/

It turns out that different places make their own design for how each one looks, so Apple and Android phones will have their own picture. 

But the first public version, with a jaunty cartoony piano accordion, looks like this: 
https://emojipedia.org/accordion/


Carry on.

Oh, and if youve ever wasted time on social media, I gathered #AccordionTwitters responses to the announcement here:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/accordiontwitter-aflame-with-the-new-emoji/

 

[debra]

Very glad to see there will finally be an accordion emoji!
Can't wait to use it (even though it appears like it won't be a cba).

 

[JerryPH]

oh, look, it's almost a free bass accordion... lol

Looking forward to seeing it!

 

[Eddy Yates]

Very cool, Bruce. Thanks.
I’m just trying to figure out how I’d use it.

“Hey, did you remember to get dog food?”


It’s the best choice of all the possibilities, bit I like cartoons and play a PA.

 

[AccordionUprising]

? #AccordionEmoji update! ?

The Android design for the 2020 emoji just got announced:

Emoji appear differently in various places. For instance this one may look different on this forum (whenever it shows up). Today it appears as a box. ? When you see it here it should be available on the forum. (If it's not on the picker-grid, you could cut and paste.)

Big Tech seems to have decided on a red piano accordion. I was interviewed about the design and the suggestions they took were "make it right-side up," "don't mess up the piano keys," and "make sure the stradella bass buttons correctly angle down towards the middle." Some are more abstract than that, but hopefully they won't be get those wrong.

Compare designs here as they come out:

🪗 Accordion Emoji

A red accordion with a keyboard on one side, buttons on the other side, and bellows in the middle. Used to talk about accordion music or music in general. Also ...

emojipedia.org

(Note for comparison, twitter's "seal" emoji is clearly a sea lion. Pinniped twitter is outraged ?.)

🦭 Seal Emoji

A gray seal with dark eyes and a dark nose. Most platforms feature a design with whiskers. Can be used to talk about seals, marine life, or cute animals in g...

emojipedia.org

You can see all the new ones as they'll look on Android phones in this announcement:

Android 11.0 Emoji Changelog

Google has today begun rolling out its latest OS update, Android 11.0. Included in this new release are 117 brand new emojis and a significant number of design changes, several of which are heavily inspired by popular designs of the past. Above: all 117 new emojis included in Android

blog.emojipedia.org

A fun project all around. ?