InkStitch - emoji embroidery
Introduction
This article explains how to embroider emoji with InkStitch. It is especially aimed at people who want to recover and improve cloth (upcycling) , for example sweaters with small moth holes.
See also:
- Stitch Era - embroider an emoji (semi-professional embroidery software, in french only so far)
- web folder which contains some SVG (source and InkStitch), PES and DSG (Stitch Era) files
- fr:Emoji (in french, so far)
'This page contains embroiderable SVG. Just display the SVG as a web page (so just display the SVG design, nothing else), then save this *.svg page from your browser CTRL-S. Make sure it's SVG, saving a raster image displayed in this page won't do it. You have to click twice on an image displayed on this page, first to display the page with an image + its documentation (images in a wiki are reusable resources that have a separate life!), then click again on the image to get to the SVG. The "media" links display the SVG page directly. Just save it. You will find the SVG file in your downloads (unless you know how to configure your browser).
The emoji
According to Wikipedia, “Emoji (絵文字, pronounced [emodʑi]), is a term derived from Japanese for pictograms used in e-mail messages and web pages.”. Many emojis are standardized as Unicode characters that can be displayed in multiple environments such as instant messengers, email clients, web pages (HTML) and various social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. In 2020, the latest version of the emoji game is defined in the document Unicode Technical Standard #51, version 13.1. This standard defines an emoji as Template:Quote}
The word emoji is masculine and its plural is either emoji or emojis according to Wiktionary. In summary (simplified), emoji are characters in fonts that are displayed either with a "text" style (simple graphics) or with more complex graphics that include color variations.
In summary, an emoji is defined by
- a drawing
- a Unicode character code (one or more combined characters, sometimes with a "[[wp_en:Zero-width_joiner|Zero Width Joiner]", pronounced "zwidge")
- an optional short name (not standardized, used mostly in cats)
- an official name in the "Common Locale Data Repository" (CLDR)
- keywords that facilitate the search
Download the SVG of an Emoji
To find an emoji and a graphic you like, we advise you to check [Emojipedia ] first.
There are several sites that allow you to download emoji. See fr:Emoji for more information. In Dec 2020, we recommend [Iconify.design ] which provides several emoji games (collections). You can either first choose a collection (below we list the most important ones) and search for an emoji in the collection, or search among all emoji on the site. Note that some collections are not complete according to UniCode 13 (or better) definitions.