Download the Google Noto Colour Emoji font. If you have the fonts-emojione-svginot font installed you MUST remove it before continuing. You’ll need to roll up your sleeves and do a bit of manual jiggery-pokery (that’s the official technical term) to get emoji beaming. What follows isn’t for the faint-hearted or the terminal averse.

If you don’t know how to undo any of the changes you make by following this tutorial, don’t follow it in the first place! Here’s how an Emoji-stuffed tweet in GTK+ app Corebird looks out of the box, with emojione-svginot and with Noto color emoji: Even fallback emoji look better with Noto, don’t you think? How To Enable Color Emoji in Chrome for Linux (And Better Looking Monochrome Emoji in GTK+ Apps) The monochromatic emoji rendering in GTK+ apps is far from nice. That font, which is now available to install on Ubuntu through a PPA, uses the power of the SVG-in-OpenType font to render color emoji on Linux in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, plus other Gecko apps and some Qt5-based ones too.īut the problem has always been that, well, Firefox is not everyone’s web browser of choice, and not every application supports SVG-in-OT fonts - hence this post!īut it’s not just for Chrome’s benefit.

That tutorial was made possible by the stellar open-source project EmojiOne Color Font.

If you’re a regular reader then you may have read our earlier articles showing you how to enable color emoji in Firefox. Her solution is surprisingly simple, truth told: install Google’s free Noto Color Emoji font on Linux. Monica has hit upon a way to get full-color, Unicode 9.0-supporting emoji looking like they should in Chrome (and other Chromium related browsers) for Linux.Īs someone who’s worked on Google Chrome, and just so happens to be a big, big fan of the zany colorful glyphs some of us love to hate, Monica was the ideal person to figure it out. Well, more precisely, ’emojineer’ and Googler Monica Dinculescu is. Are you fed up of not being able to see color emoji in Google Chrome on Linux? If so, I’m about to make your day.

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