# What authority assigns the "short" names of the Emoji?

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**Created:** [4 يونيو 2015، 11:49م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-authority-assigns-the-short-names-of-the-emoji/29665 "2015-06-04T23:49:34Z")\
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The colorful images are replacements for Unicode characters, but both are emoji.

It is starting to look like the names have been arbitrarily assigned by contributors to gemoji, a tool which creates png images from the Apple truetype font (“/System/Library/Fonts/Apple Color Emoji.ttf”, not included in the package).

[https://github.com/github/gemoji](https://github.com/github/gemoji)

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