In the end, the final results are a reflection of Gladstone’s community values and scientific mission.

Using our Pride Zoom Backgrounds as a starting point, we created nine emojis to help share your pride! We also polled our community to see what kind of emojis they wanted to see in Slack, and received many requests to include more Pride-themed emojis. You can now do all that with a simple emoji. Maybe you want to remind your colleagues to wash their hands, wear a mask, or stay 6 feet away. Inspired by our community, the original suite included several pandemic related emojis. The new emojis were heavily influenced by Gladstonians and are centered on daily life in a scientific research lab. These emojis are a reflection of Gladstone’s community values and scientific mission. Today, we’re releasing an update with several new emojis intended to bring some joy and levity to your workday.Ĭhosen for the “July 17” marked on the calendar emoji, World Emoji Day helps celebrate the advent of modern communication, cheer for your favorite icon, and maybe even sing the official anthem. In 2020, Gladstone released a suite of custom-designed emojis for Slack to celebrate World Emoji Day. It even supports the emoji with skin tone variations! 👍🏻👍🏿įor now, I just left the custom emoji unreplaced, since they are images in Slack and there isn't a good way to send image data in IRC.This article was originally published on July 17, 2020. I had to use a separate library to translate the unicode hex values to an actual unicode string. Thankfully, Slack publishes the data they use for their emoji names, so I basically added that to the gateway and look up the mapping there. It was actually a surprisingly small amount of code overall.

Today I updated the gateway to translate those emoji text to unicode so that they appear as native emoji in IRC. Previously, the gateway would just send the text through to IRC, which doesn't look great for IRC users. For example, 😻 is :heart_eyes_cat: when it comes through the API. When someone types an emoji in Slack, it shows up in the API as a text description surrounded by colons.

Custom slack emoji