# Custom emoticons/emoji list?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [August 31, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479 "2014-08-31T15:27:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@ashledombos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ashledombos)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/1 "2014-08-31T15:27:38Z")
Continuing the discussion from [[Paid] Need a Vanilla 2 Import tool](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-need-a-vanilla-2-import-tool/14852/39):
> [@\[Paid\] Need a Vanilla 2 Import tool](https://meta.discourse.org/t/paid-need-a-vanilla-2-import-tool/14852/39):
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> I’m fine with adding a pre-processing step in the [vanilla importer](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/script/import_scripts/vanilla.rb) to _translate_ these emoticons to the ones we support if there is a match. PRs are welcome 😉
Just by curiosity, is it potentially easilly doable to have a custom list of emoticons/emoji?
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### Author:  [@Chili](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chili)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/2 "2014-08-31T16:04:15Z")
The users on our forum dislike the default emojis, in particular the “laughing” smiley so on my app.yml in the custom command section I have a line that backs up the default laughing.png and then it wgets the replacement smiley and writes it as laughing.png in the public/plugins/emoji/images folder. The custom smiley then shows up whenever that smiley is used so it should work if you don’t mind over-writing the existing smileys. Aside from that I’m sure you could copy the emoji plugin and replace it with all your own smileys for a better solution.
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/3 "2014-08-31T16:17:25Z")
A configurable mapping from full `:code:`-style emojis to custom images should be about as hard as a [configurable mapping from ASCII-style emotions to `:codes:`](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configurable-ascii-style-emojis/19294)… and it would make a lot of sense to implement both in the same UI.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/4 "2014-08-31T17:04:53Z")
Many of my fellow staff have voiced negative opinions about the emoji smilies. eg. “they look evil”.
I have looked into writing a plugin to allow the “traditional” vB smilies - and the “custom” SitePoint smilies - but have been side-tracked by Real Life latey and haven’t gotten very far with it.
Collaboration in this regard is most welcome.
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### Author:  [@Chili](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chili)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/5 "2014-08-31T17:13:52Z")
> [@Mittineague](#):
>
> Many of my fellow staff have voiced negative opinions about the emoji smilies. eg. “they look evil”.
> I have looked into writing a plugin to allow the “traditional” vB smilies - and the “custom” SitePoint smilies - but have been side-tracked by Real Life latey and haven’t gotten very far with it.
>
> Collaboration in this regard is most welcome.
I get the same feedback from the users on our forum too. I would be very interested in this as well.
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/6 "2014-08-31T18:47:27Z")
Evil? Do they object to a few specific smileys or the whole set?
I actually quite like most of these smileys, except…
- `:smile:` 😄 vs. , the emoji is too happy for a default smile.
- `:grin:` 😁 vs. , here the emoji is really badly designed and looks more like fletched teeth.
- `:stuck_out_tongue:` 😛 vs. , compared to what I’m used to, the emoji is too neutral.
- `:frowning:` ☹ vs. , the emoji seems to espress more distress than sadness.
And obviously, a few oldies but goldies are just plain missing…
   
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/7 "2014-08-31T22:11:47Z")
I pretty much 100% agree on those nitpicks, if a super designer wants to take a crack at improving them we would be more than happy to replace.
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### Author:  [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2014, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/8 "2014-09-01T10:05:33Z")
[quote=“elberet, post:6, topic:19479”]
Evil? Do they object to a few specific smileys or the whole set?
[/quote]I think I may have started the revolt on our instance, and my word was “sinister” - which is how I see all the yellow face smilies. Most of the others are fine, and I’m particularly partial to the 🐻 . For the others, at the moment, I just cheat. 
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### Author:  [@fysics](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fysics)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2014, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/9 "2014-09-01T10:11:00Z")
The current emojis look like they’re lifted directly from [Apple](http://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode).
Edit: Ah yes, [they are](https://github.com/github/gemoji/blob/master/LICENSE):
```
All other images
Copyright (c) 2013 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
```
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### Author:  [@Chili](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chili)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2014, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/10 "2014-09-01T10:20:54Z")
Personally I think the [Microsoft emojis look a little better](http://emojipedia.org/microsoft-emoji-list/). And the [Google emojis](http://emojipedia.org/google-emoji-list/) have some really good facial expressions but I had some very negative feedback on our forum when I tried them out.
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### Author:  [@haiku](https://meta.discourse.org/u/haiku)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2014, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/11 "2014-09-01T13:45:22Z")
I don’t think the Apple ones really fit in anywhere anymore - especially since iOS6 is long gone. My personal preference out of the three sets is the Microsoft ones, I’m probably just more used to them though. I like some of the Google ones but a lot are just… odd.
My all time favourite emote pack is [Rice Balls by David Lanham](http://www.dlanham.com/ui/riceballs/)
I think the conclusion to draw is to enable custom smileys - perhaps a single plugin that admins can load different emote packs into, and add extras to? Part of it would be resolving which key combo renders which image. 😄
Also, 🙂 is definitely happier than 😃
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### Author:  [@Sailsman63](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sailsman63)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/12 "2014-09-01T14:27:42Z")
Of course, the list could also use a :headdesk or :facepalm of some sort. I’ve also got a couple of favorites from other contexts:
- a phpbb instance I use has [💻](http://www.friendlyskies.net/aoiforum/img/smilies/laptop.gif) and [:eek:](http://www.friendlyskies.net/aoiforum/img/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
- I recently saw [an exploding head](http://gotshifted.com/emote_head_explode.gif) in use. Must have.
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### Author:  [@altious](https://meta.discourse.org/u/altious)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/13 "2014-10-16T16:06:51Z")
can we change custom emoticon now?
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### Author:  [@Kovah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kovah)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2014, 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/16 "2014-12-22T21:06:33Z")
+1
I would like to know this too. Isn’t there a directory with all the smileys as .pngs or a sprite we could replace with custom ones?
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/17 "2014-12-22T21:08:08Z")
If you are on latest, yes. You can add custom ones in the admin area.
FYI, you’ve been able to do it via a plugin for a while now too.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/18 "2014-12-22T22:46:17Z")
> [@cpradio](#):
>
> If you are on latest, yes. You can add custom ones in the admin area.
Pretty sure you can’t since I haven’t pushed that feature yet 😉
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/19 "2014-12-22T23:28:17Z")
I don’t think custom emoji are in yet, but as part of the ongoing work for the 1.2 release
- select sets of emoji (Twitter, Google, Apple, EmojiOne) ← this is done
- add custom emoji (`:garbage:` or `:trollface:` or `:whatever:`) ← this is not done yet
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/20 "2014-12-23T01:08:43Z")
Oh, I thought I saw somewhere you posted a commit for it, but I’m glad to be wrong 😄
Oh you’re slick! Now I see you have committed it. 😄
> [@Emoji selector and custom Emoji](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-selector-and-custom-emoji/22725/14):
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> Phase #2 is now available discourse sunglasses[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/45dbdb689620096d348f6a2b1d2cbb081fa4d948](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/45dbdb689620096d348f6a2b1d2cbb081fa4d948)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-emoticons-emoji-list/19479/21 "2015-12-11T01:25:29Z")