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alisone40123305
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July 17, 2018
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How to use Emoji in InDesign

  • July 17, 2018
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Hi,

I'm typesetting a story which features emojis and have downloaded the emoji 2.0 keyboard. Does anyone know how to get the emojis into the Indesign document please? Or, if this isn't possible, another way to get them in there. Thanks.

 

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Correct answer Steve Werner

Use the Glyphs panel. Choose Type > Glyphs to open it. Choose the font that has the emojis in the menu at the bottom. Find the emoji you want and double-click to insert.

Recent glyphs are shown at the top to use them again. You can also use the menu to create sets of glyphs you want to use regularly.

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Participating Frequently
April 23, 2021

Another way (which works better for my needs) is to download .png files of the emojis you want to use from https://emojipedia.org/ then place these as images into your InDesign document

Participant
February 3, 2021

This thread wasn't clear for me, so wanted to pull it all together with the steps that worked for me:

I selected Apple Color Emoji as the font (I'm not sure if it comes standard with all Macs).

When I then opened Type > Glyphs, I selected Show: > Entire Font to see all the available Unicode emojis and select the one I wanted. You can also use the search box directly above the Show: dropdown to find the exact emoji you're looking for. The emoji I used also exported to a pdf. 

Apologies if this is redundant to the other answers in the thread, but I didn't understand that I had to specifically select the Apple Color Emoji font before opening the Glyphs panel. 

 

Thanks!

AlexWilliamsDSGN
Participant
March 3, 2022

Thank you this worked perfect for me

Steve Werner
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Steve WernerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
July 17, 2018

Use the Glyphs panel. Choose Type > Glyphs to open it. Choose the font that has the emojis in the menu at the bottom. Find the emoji you want and double-click to insert.

Recent glyphs are shown at the top to use them again. You can also use the menu to create sets of glyphs you want to use regularly.

alisone40123305
Participant
July 17, 2018

Brilliant! Thanks so much.