A Light Hearted Project For April Fools
If you’ve tried adding Emoji to your Gatsby Markdown blog, you will see that it’s very hit or miss. Below is a quick guide to what works and what doesn’t on April Fools Day, 2021.
I used gatsby-remark-emoji. NOTE: there is no trailing s. This is just a wrapper for the emojione library. That library, in turn, seems to be pulling some free emojis from joypixels. Thats as far as I was willing dive for this project 😞. When I want to work on something fun I’ll loop back around to see if I can get more of these working.
Contrary to the plugin’s docs on Gatsby, it supports many more “conversion styles” than the JS functions on JoyPixels. In the options, I tried “shortnameToImage”, and it worked but the emoji were not scaled correctly, so I switched back.
Slack Emoji Codes:
You can use Slack Codes:
Yields: 😉 😚 😢 😭 😆 😋 👉 👀
Slack Emoticon Text Shortcuts
This plugin docs poorly document these. My best guess is they cover a subset of the Slack emoticon list. !TODO: dig through the plugin code.
| Brute Force Test of Slack Specific Codes Yields | ||
|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 🙂 =-) | 🙂 (: 🙂 |
| 💔 | 😃 😃 | 😞 ): 😞 |
| 😎 | 😉 😉 | 😕 😕 😕 :-\ |
| 😨 | :> :-> | :p :-p 😛 😛 |
| 😢 | :| :-| | ;p ;-p ;b ;-b |
| :o) | :o :-o | |
| 😘 😘 | 😠 😠 | |
Troll Face
Some Troll Face Emoticons work too:
( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)
༼ ºل͟º ༽
( ͡°Ɛ ͡°)
( ͡ ͜ʖ ͡ )
ლ(ಠ 益 ಠლ)
ლ (ಠ_ಠ ლ)
༼ノ ◕ ヮ ◕ ༽ノ︵┻━┻
( ͡°( ͡° ͜ʖ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ʖ ͡°) ͡°)
See the reference page for more!