Submitig an Emoji proposal

[Rolland373045590plw]

Hello everyone, 

I am working on an Emoji proposal for Unicode, and one of the requirements is to send your image in dimensions of 18×18 and 72×72 pixels. when I'm resizing my design as requested, the out come is blurry and seems way too small. 

Do those dimensions make sense? or am I miss understanding something?

Thank's

 

[Monika Gause]

If the output looks blurry, then probably your design is not suitable for that size.

And that is what they want to test with that requirement.

[Rolland373045590plw]

hey, thanks. I used illustrator, thinking vectors would be the best way. also- it is not a complicated drawing at all. what could be the problem? thank you

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

They want them at specific pixel sizes, so vectors don't matter here (except to export from).

The 'problem' is probably as Monika said. 18 or 72 pixels square is not a lot of space to convey information. Does your image work represented as a grid of colours this size? That's what you're working with:

[Monika Gause]

Emojis are used in a test message on the phone. You know how small those are. But still you need to be able to tell the smiling face and the moon apart from each other. 

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

If I understand correctly, the emoji would be part of a font.

Probably as svg, so Illustrator vectors would be the right approach.

But these vectors have to look good at various sizes, so they want to see examples at 18×18 and 72×72 pixels.

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html