Mutant Standard 2024.06

Emoji design updates:

• all cat emoji
• alien
• alien_monster
• crossbones
• ghost
• jack_o_lantern
• robot
• skull

Emoji additions:

• goat
• moai
• bicycle

Shortcode changes:

• cat_smile -> cat_grin
• cat_grin -> cat_smile

Emoji removals:

• grumpy_block

Other details:

• Restructured smiley folder
• Started adding new metadata for an eventual future where the Mutant Standard repertoire can be sharded into different parts, allowing people to download different chunks based on personal preferences.

Mutant Standard 2023.12r1

The design for 1f925 lying_face was slightly incorrect, this has now been fixed.

Mutant Standard 2023.12

Complete redesigns for most smileys, as well as many emoji additions.

New emoji

• (MTNT custom) uwu
• 1f642-200d-2194-fe0f "Head Shaking Horizontally" (head_shaking_horizontally)
• 1f642-200d-2195-fe0f "Head Shaking Vertically" (head_shaking_vertically)
• 1f92d "Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Hand Covering Mouth" (hand_over_mouth_closed_eyes)
  • This replaces the codepoint with the original Mutant Standard hand_over_mouth, which is now assigned 1fae2.
• 1fae1 "Saluting Face" (saluting_face)
• 1f978 "Disguised Face" (disguised_face)
• 1fae8 "Shaking Face" (shaking_face)
• 1f62e-200d-1f4a8 "Face Exhaling" (exhaling_face)
• 1fae4 "Face With Diagonal Mouth" (diagonal_mouth)
• 1f979 "Face Holding Back Tears" (holding_back_tears)
• 1fae5 "Dotted Line Face" (outline_face)
• 1f372 "Pot of Food" (stew)
• 1f32e "Taco" (taco)
• 1f36e "Custard" (custard)
• 1f41d "Bumblebee" (bee)
• 1f33b "Sunflower" (sunflower)

Note on codepoints

In recent Unicode updates, a few smileys have been disambiguated. (In less polite speak, Apple kept insisting on using their divergent designs and Unicode changed the shortcodes to meet them. )

There are a few smiley pairs that either have different codepoints or one of the pair has a codepoint where it didn't before because Unicode made one for a design I already had established.

Shortcode changes

I want to try to work towards providing more convenient packages with an eye to better platform adoption in 2024.02 and I was also struggling to grapple with my own interpretations of some fairly vague designs (especially the grinning ones), so I took the opportunity in this redesign to bring shortcodes more in line (although not completely) with how various platforms use them.

This could result in some weird behaviour if changing them out in places, as some of these changes result in a few designs swapping around.

• smile -> slight_smile
• upside_down_smile -> upside_down
• big_smile -> grinning
• happy -> smiley
• grin -> smile
• grinning -> grin
• stick_out_tongue -> stuck_out_tongue
• xd_tongue -> closed_eyes_tongue
• embarrassed -> flushed
• hug -> hugging_face
• wink_kiss -> blowing_a_kiss
• straight_face -> neutral_face
• surprised -> hushed
• shocked -> anguished
• unhappy -> frown_open_mouth (the design for this one is substantially different than the original due to previous confusion over Unicode codepoints)
• smile_w_tear -> smile_with_tear
• loud_cry -> sob
• sneezing -> sneeze
• nauseous -> face_with_thermometer
• sick -> nauseous
• angry_steam -> triumph
• cool_face -> sunglasses_face
• nerd_face -> nerd
• shit -> poop
• hot_shit -> flaming_poop

Other improvements

• Greatly improved text descriptions for smileys, many of which did not have proper text descriptions at all. I didn’t notice this until now, many apologies.

Mutant Standard 2023.11

Refreshed emoji designs:

• All emoji in symbols/hearts.
• love_letter.

New emoji:

• light_blue_heart
• pink_heart
• brown_heart
• white_heart
• gray_heart
• bandaged_heart
• heart_on_fire
• heart_decoration

Renamed shortcodes:

• heart_exclamation_mark -> heart_exclamation
• heart_ribbon -> ribbon_heart
• two_hearts_orbit -> revolving_hearts

Manifest changes

• Attribution is now to 'Caius Nocturne' instead of 'Dzuk' (I changed names).
• Personal attribution URL is now 'nocturne.works' instead of 'dzuk.zone'.

Mutant Standard 2023.10

This is a fairly modest update that adds a few emoji that I’ve been making the past year that is not the massive smiley update that I’ve been talking about on social media for months (You should see this in 2023.12).

New emoji

• gay_man_flag

Updated emoji

These have been refreshed with cleaner and more modernised designs.

• watch
• laptop
• computer
• tv
• phone
• phone_with_arrow
• phone_vibrate
• phone_off

Mutant Standard 2022.12

This now no longer requires a my own fork of Orxporter. Please use Orxporter 0.5.0 for this build release.

Mutant Standard changes

Check out the Mutant Standard 2022.12 release notes for the changes in this release.

Build repo changes

• Much fewer build scripts, keeping things to the essentials.
• Tags in this repo will now go as follows:
  • mtntYYYY.MM - Mutant Standard release
  • orxXXX - Expected Orxporter version to use
• The main branch is now main instead of master.

Mutant Standard 0.4.1

This build requires a newer version of Orxporter, currently only available from Dzuk's fork.

New emoji

• New palms_up expression for all MMs
• neurodiversity symbol and infinity
• all-new hoof hands (12) and hoof hand modifier
• car, suv, taxi, minibus, ambulance, delivery_truck, articulated_truck, construction_sign, siren, bus_stop
• light_bulb, soap
• sunrise, sunrise_over_mountains, national_park, foggy, moon_viewing_ceremony
• card suits (4), dollar, currency conversion
• steam_train, mountain_train, briefcase
• enby_crossbow
• mild_panic
• cookie, pizza, egg, tofu, avocado

Visual Changes

• Updated Muscle expression (for all MMs)
• Updated punch for hmn and claw MMs.
• Rounded outlines for fist_facing_left, fist_facing_right, writing_hand, pray and nail_varnish for all MMs.
• Slightly improved massage emoji
• Slightly improved privacy emoji
• Improved symbol flag emoji
• Updated dice colours
• Updated office/stationery emoji
• Adjusted money emoji colours
• Adjusted tech 2 emoji colours
• Improved earth and world map emoji
• Improved beach and desert_island emoji
• Updated gender symbol designs
• Updated bugbear design

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error from 0.4.0 where the lightness of H1-H5's text descriptions were accidentally flipped.
• Fixed a visual bug in volcano.
• Fixed an outline gap on nail_varnish [paw]

Codepoint changes

• snake assigned Unicode 'Snake' (U+1F40D)
• leopard assigned Unicode 'Leopard' (U+1F406)
• ram assigned Unicode 'Ram' (U+1F40F)
• rat assigned Unicode 'Rat' (U+1F400)
• rabbit assigned Unicode 'Rabbit' (U+1F407) (not to be confused with Unicode's 'Rabbit Face')
• tiger has been moved from Unicode 'Tiger Face' (U+1F42F) to Unicode 'Tiger' (U+1F405)
• musical_score in the last version was accidentally encoded as U+1F4BC ('Briefcase') instead of U+1F3BC. It's now been fixed.

Changed shortcodes

• triangular_flag -> triangle_flag

Other changes

• 'travel_places/transport' renamed to 'travel_places/trains'.