The Oregon Association of the Deaf is following the lead of Taco Bell and petitioning Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language for "I love you" in its growing collection of emojis. C.M ...

Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.

No sign understands the symbiotic relationship between comedy and tragedy quite like a crab, making the cry/laugh tears of joy emoji their perfect, personal pictogram.

Attempting to create a universal glyph-based language for human beings in the digital age is a noble endeavor. But unfortunately, the entity behind our semi-ubiquitious emoji system, Unicode ...

The 'I love you' emoji is based on American Sign Language. The pinky finger extended represents the letter 'I', while the thumb and index finger extended together represent the letter 'L'.

The phenomenal adoption of emoji is not a phenomenon confined to the UK, however. In April, a report by Swiftkey, based on over a billion pieces of data, across 16 language groups, demonstrated ...

With those goofy little icons, parents are trying to speak their kids’ language.

November 16, 2014 9:00 p.m. Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue By Adam Sternbergh ...

Emoji is the universal language we've been waiting for, but do you know what they actually mean?

Adding a heart emoji is all you need to take it to the next level. They serve as true ambassadors of love, friendship and even heartbreak.

Far from emoji dragging us back to the dark ages, their advent has helped recalibrate our emotional intelligence: digital communication is catching up with the repertoire of communicative tools we ...