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Insert Emojis in Adobe Illustrator

Participant ,
Jun 20, 2017 Jun 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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May 09, 2018 May 09, 2018

You should be able to use emoji in Illustrator now. I just type "emoji" in the character field and get something like this. Don't know if it is the same in Windows.

Skærmbillede 2018-05-09 kl. 14.43.00.png

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Karsten

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Community Expert , Aug 12, 2020 Aug 12, 2020

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.

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Jun 20, 2017 Jun 20, 2017

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i think you're going to have to explain what you're trying to do in a bit more detail.

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Jun 20, 2017 Jun 20, 2017

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  <----- I'm trying to type an emoji ---->

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Community Expert ,
Jun 20, 2017 Jun 20, 2017

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illustrator doesn't support those sort of fonts as far as i know.

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Jun 20, 2017 Jun 20, 2017

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Yup that's what I thought...

Sketch App supports emojis so I'll export from there

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Guest
May 09, 2018 May 09, 2018

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You should be able to use emoji in Illustrator now. I just type "emoji" in the character field and get something like this. Don't know if it is the same in Windows.

Skærmbillede 2018-05-09 kl. 14.43.00.png

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Karsten

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May 09, 2018 May 09, 2018

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the EmojiOne font was supplied with CC2018. it should be on both mac and windows.

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Enthusiast ,
Jul 01, 2019 Jul 01, 2019

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/Doug+A+Roberts  wrote

the EmojiOne font was supplied with CC2018. it should be on both mac and windows.

I was searching for emojis too. I'm on windows 10. Thanks for telling about this font! Yours should be marked as the solution now.

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Jul 02, 2019 Jul 02, 2019

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

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Guest
May 12, 2022 May 12, 2022

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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?

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Explorer ,
May 29, 2020 May 29, 2020

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

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Community Expert ,
May 29, 2020 May 29, 2020

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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

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New Here ,
Aug 11, 2020 Aug 11, 2020

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

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Aug 12, 2020 Aug 12, 2020

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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.

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Aug 12, 2020 Aug 12, 2020

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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.

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New Here ,
Dec 22, 2020 Dec 22, 2020

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Thanks this was exatly what I was looking for.  Yes Wikka I had the same problem. Now solved thanks Monika.

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New Here ,
Feb 24, 2021 Feb 24, 2021

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Works! Ps adobe you are a jerk.

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New Here ,
Feb 25, 2022 Feb 25, 2022

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Lifesaver! Whenever I typed in the Apple Emojis nothing showed and it kept going back to the default font. Thank you

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Community Beginner ,
May 28, 2023 May 28, 2023

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Bonjour, et Merci beaucoup Monika ! C'est exactement ce sur quoi je me cassais la tête, et grâce à vous j'ai (nous avons) la solution ! Merci !

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 21, 2021 Mar 21, 2021

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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. 😩

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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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Guest
May 12, 2022 May 12, 2022

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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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New Here ,
Jan 16, 2023 Jan 16, 2023

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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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Jan 16, 2023 Jan 16, 2023

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Please post feature requests to https://illustrator.uservoice.com 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 01, 2023 Jul 01, 2023

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Not sure if this has been answered at this point already but using the above-mentioned key combination on Mac pressing cmd+control+space on the home screen will bring up the emoji palette. Simply drag the emoji into Illustrator. It doesn't appear to work the same for PS

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