Apple emoji finally embrace racial diversity

Apple embrace racial diversity

Apple emoji finally embrace racial diversity

Apple has diversified the skin tones of its emoji characters on the latest beta version of its OS X operating system, with a range of five skin colours.

The pre-release update to Apple’s OS X was sent to developers and includes an updated emoji keyboard featuring skin-tone variations based on the Fitzpatrick scale, which is a skin-colour classification system recognised by dermatologists.

Apple’s emoji previously only included three characters representing non-white people, including a man with brown skin wearing a turban, and a man in a Chinese-style skull cap with smaller and more slanted eyes.

The racial variations now come in a default yellow, with users able to select other skin tones – from white to dark brown.

Apple’s move follows pressure from bodies including the Unicode Consortium, which campaigns for software standardisation and which last year drew up a plan proposing five skin-tone colours for emojis.

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