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by Manishearth 3386 days ago
Unicode does not require fonts to use color, and the spec does try to deal with the case where you don't want to use color; explicitly talking about black-and-white renderings in multiple places. This is no different for the skin tone modifiers, it's perfectly okay to fall back to a greyscale emoji (indeed, it might make sense to render all emoji in greyscale or B&W in a text editor).
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> [...] it's perfectly okay to fall back to a greyscale emoji [...]

...if you want to destroy the user experience. Practically many implementations would be forced to support colors. (I'm personally okay with that, but just to be correct)