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Latest News, Emoji Updates and Beard Banter

Beard Emoji victory is coming

Wednesday 19th July 2017

Our long-awaited Beard Emoji has been approved by Unicode and manufacturers should start rolling it out to their software soon... Read more

National Beard Week 2016

Monday 27th June 2016

27th June 2016, a week declared as National Beard Week by The Beard Liberation Front (BLF)... Read more

4,000 Beard Emoji Signatures

Sunday 12th June 2016

One year on and over 4,000 signatures to our beard emoji petition... Read more

Celeb: Kristofer Hivju Supports Beard Emoji

Tuesday 10th May 2016

Grow a beard. Own a throne. Winter is coming... Read more

Emoji Hair Colour, Gender and Direction

Tuesday 19th April 2016

A new proposal to Unicode from Mark Davis (Google Inc.) and Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.) could be a huge emoji upgrade if accepted... Read more

2,000 Beard Emoji Signatures

Thursday 19th November 2015

We've been so busy working on an official beard emoji proposal for Unicode that we didn't notice you had pushed us over the 2,000 signatures mark on our petition... Read more

Emoticons vs Emojis

Tuesday 3rd November 2015

The Unicode Consortium require examples of how a beard emoji would be used in real world context. Can you help?.. Read more

iOS 9.1 Emojis

Wednesday 21st October 2015

Apple has released iOS 9.1 which not only brings the usual bug fixes and enhancements but also includes over 150 new emoji characters... Read more

1,000 Beard Emoji Signatures

Friday 11th September 2015

Thank you fellow beard wearers and pogonophiles, we've reached our first 1,000 signatures on the beard emoji petition... Read more

Beard Emoji Petition with Change.org

Friday 24th July 2015

Change.org is a petition based platform which has been proven to help reach the decision makers at the highest levels of government and businesses... Read more