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by user-the-name 1745 days ago
No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour.

Instead, OSes use a font fallback list where other fonts are substituted in for characters that are missing, and each OS provides one font that includes all the emoji as colour bitmaps.
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bmn__ 1744 days ago
> No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour.

You're mistaken, that does not reflect reality.

https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/

https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

I have specifically installed this font in my X/Linux system to get colourful emoji.

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ygra 1745 days ago
There's various ways how to do those in fonts. I think Apple uses bitmaps. Microsoft uses several overlaid glyphs in different colors. And there's also a way of embedding SVG as glyphs in fonts.
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