2017-04-01 23:09 GMT+02:00 Rebecca T <[email protected]>: > > No chess symbols, encoded or proposed, are emoji, nor should they be. > > Except on Samsung > <https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/94863/samsung-android-phone-rendering-chess-unicode-as-emoji> > . >
Except that the sample in this article mixes the colors (black symbol, vs. white piece emoji, only slighjly darkened with its 3D shadows) I hope that Samsung is making a clear distinction in its emojis, otherwise it is not a replacement of the symbol, and skin color modifiers "may" have been used to. Note that the previous discussion talks about black and white patterns, but in reality the patterns are just there to emulate color or lightness/darkness. I don't think there's ny realy difference if the pattern hashes are oriented like /// or \\\, or if grid patterns are rotated 0° 30°, 45°: these patterns are used to get a visual feeling as the exact number of stroke is not significant (only the visual black vs/white coverate rate is significant and high resolution devices may freely use thinner stroke widths depending on pixel/subpixel sizes, optical filters or ink droplets/powders sizes and absorbtion/diffusion by the printing support). The same appllies too for human skin color modifiers. On typical color (or grey) displays or polychrmatic printing, these patterns will not be used, real colorized fills will be used for more clarity. Today's printing techniques use much higher precision, and patterns used on old books or maps are no longer needed (and paper surface quality/regularity today is much better than what it was in the past, even for basic newspapers using cheap recycled paper, where polychromatic printing is also used, notably on pages related to leasure time, games, TV programs, wheather maps, photos of celebrities... and adertizing! Printing masks are generated using hi resolution lasers and ink quality is much better too).
