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Insert Emojis in Adobe Illustrator

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June 20, 2017
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While it's incredibly easy to insert Emojis in all Mac OS apps it's incredibly difficult to do so in Adobe Illustrator ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Correct answer Monika Gause

You need to create a new text object, delete everything in it, then apply the Emoji font and then use the Glyphs panel for typing.

damonm63427390

Participant

What everyone seems to miss in the responses to this (and the question as well since it is quite unclear), and Adobe as well, is that emoji ARE characters.

On a Mac in apps that don't go out of their way to disable it, I can bring up the emoji/symbol picker by pressing cmd+control+space (or on late 2020 macs, the function key) and it will bring up the system emoji picker. I can then type a name to filter them, use arrow keys, and hit enter to insert it. 😩

This is a feature of the operating system and can be used all over the place. However in Illustrator and Photoshop, when you press cmd+control+space — nothing happens. Likewise if you configure your system so that the function key brings up the emoji picker, if you are in Illustrator or Photoshop and press the function key — nothing happens.

This is so much easier than creating text, changing it to a specific font and using a weird interface to choose characters instead of just typing them as the UTF symbols that they are.

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Anonymous

Agree 100%

Why does Adobe disable something that handy, and that OS-wide?

Dear Adobe - people use emoji. They are here to stay. Please add them into your UI.

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bradyallenyoung

Participant

Bumping this @Adobe
With how ubiquitous creating content for social media is and its use of emojis, would really help to bring them in natively. Finding in the unsearchable glyph panel is a headache– and it's such a pain to google "ios _ emoji transparent" then download an image and import. Not just for illustrator but across the video editors Pr Ae as well

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Wikka

Participant

Has anyone actually tried typing with that emoji font? As soon as I type, it defaults to sans serif font.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

The emoji font's characters are mapped differently to a regular font, so if you type an 'a' for instance, that doesn't have an equivalent in the emoji font. Illustrator's response seems to be to revert to the default paragraph style.

CypherPoet

Known Participant

While I love this feature, it would be extremely useful to be able to search emojis by name. The collection is quite large 🙂

Charu Rajput

Community Expert

Hi,

You can raise the feature request on the Illustrator forum of bugs and feature request.

Here is the link for the forum.

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/

Best regards

KShinabery212

Community Expert

Or one could just design desirred emojis... or create new ones. Even customize them specifically for your project.

Let's connect on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshinabery/

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Anonymous

Do you know the difference in overhead between drawing all custom icons/emoji for a given project, and just using what's already built in? I don't think you do. I don't think you have a firm grasp of the reality of designing in the real world.

Sure, I could design my own - but why bother?