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Next Windows 11 update brings back Clippy, along with other redesigned emoji - Ars Technica

Next Windows 11 update brings back Clippy, along with other redesigned emoji - Ars Technica

Next Windows 11 update brings back Clippy, along with other redesigned emoji - Ars Technica
Nov 24, 2021 54 secs

Microsoft announced redesigned emoji back in July, and the next Windows update (version 22000.348, if you're tracking this sort of thing) adds those emoji to Windows 11.

The new emoji remove the bold, black outlines from the Windows 10-era designs and change the colors and shapes of a few to make them match up better with Apple's, Google's, and Samsung's glyphs—compare the new design for Spiral Shell to the old one, for an example.

These emoji use the basic designs that Microsoft showed off earlier this year—but without animation or the "3D" touches, like added depth and color gradients.

The Verge speculates that this is a limitation of the vector graphics format Microsoft uses to display emoji in Windows—using vector graphics can reduce file sizes while making it a lot simpler to scale the size of emoji up and down without losing sharpness or detail, but it also works best with flat colors.

You can get the new emoji designs now if you install the optional November 2021 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 from Windows Update; that update will be installed automatically next month.

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