How to change color of certain emojis?

[CyanPlastic]

I just upgraded from Photoshop CS6 to CC and I'm liking it so far. But in CS6, when I used the EmojiOne font, I was able to choose what color it could be, similar to regular text. But now in CC, all emojis stick to just one color. Is there a way to change its color like in CS6 without having to rasterize the layer and change its color to what I want manually?

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi CyanPlastic,

As you're looking to change the color of the emojis, could you please have a look at this article and let us know if it helps?

Typekit Help | OpenType-SVG color font

Regards,

Sahil

[dianew7732572]

I too have the same question and no, the information on the page linked to did not answer the question. In my case, I'd like to use a simple emoji like a heart but customize the color to specific hex color as one might do with font letters.

Thanks

[Nancy OShea]

dianew7732572  wrote

I'd like to use a simple emoji like a heart but customize the color to specific hex color

Perhaps the custom shape tool would be a better fit for what you want.   I used a heart shape with custom stroke and fill colors  (see screenshot).

[Nancy OShea]

Right click on EmojiOne layer and select Convert to Shape.  

Then apply your shape fill and stroke values as shown in reply #3.

This works equally well on EmojiOne and Trajan Color fonts.

[DaveJCummings]

I would do what Nancy suggested

[Trevor.Dennis]

I am sure I must be missing something, but you can select and set each character to a different colour.  I EmojieOne not a font as such?

[dianew7732572]

The colors of the emoji font don't really change as if you were changing the color of a letter font.

[Semaphoric]

There is a font that (I think) comes with Windows called Segoe UI Emoji, which is a plain monochrome font. There are various elements of the emojis accessible through the Glyphs panel:

    

You can stack these up and change colors in each layer to get variations of the final emoji:

    

[Nancy OShea]

Windows and Mac emojis are PNG images.  But the emojis that ship with Photoshop are SVGs .  So they work a little differently than ordinary fonts.

[Semaphoric]

The font I mentioned is just a regular True Type font.