Utilise the browser typeface for emoji

[rokejulianlockhart (Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB))]

For those who utilise coloured text for accessibility purposes, google-noto-emoji-fonts-20250623-2.fc43.noarch exists, to replace google-noto-emoji-fonts-20250623-2. This is easily usable in firefox-145.0.1-1, via font.name-list.emoji: Noto Emoji. However, Discourse overrides this:

Why emoji changed with Discourse upgrade

Emojis update

It’s not that simple for two reasons: different platforms support new released emojis at different speed, so you could have user A on platform 1, creating a post using an emoji available on this platform, which will then be seen by user B on platform 2 which doesn’t support yet the latest emojis released few weeks ago => tofu box (in the world of fonts, “tofu” is a blank rectangular box that appears when a character cannot be displayed). custom emojis. Discourse supports custom emojis which a…

To demonstrate:

1. //*[@id="reply-control"]

   

2. div.topic-post

   

It should not.