Re: Olympic sports emoji

From: Leo Broukhis <leob_at_mailcom.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:40:04 -0700

Fonts vary and can be copyrighted, no doubt, but Unicode is not about fonts.

Leo

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org> wrote:
> Garth Wallace <gwalla at gmail dot com> wrote:
>
>> I read this proposal [L2/15-196R] and was a little confused. Why
>> aren't they proposing the actual sports pictograms that are in use for
>> international events like the Olympics? Those are generally stylized
>> human figures shown engaging in sports, but the suggested symbols in
>> this proposal seem to mostly be pictures of sports equipment. It seems
>> like reinventing the wheel. Are the Olympic-style pictograms not felt
>> to be sufficiently emoji-like?
>
> The official Summer Olympics pictograms change each time the Games are
> held:
>
> http://www.olympic.org/Assets/OSC%20Section/pdf/QR_sports_pictograms_of_the_olympic_summer_games_1964_2016.pdf
>
> Although the symbols introduced for the 1972 Munich Games were
> particularly influential and are often thought to be canonical, these
> symbols have been styled quite differently since 1992.
>
> Additionally, the images are copyrighted, for the most part by the
> International Olympic Committee (see page 2 of the PDF document).
>
> --
> Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 27 2015 - 15:41:30 CDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Mon Jul 27 2015 - 15:41:30 CDT