Re: Dark beer emoji

It should be applied to all emoji. Could be fun with the poo one.

Thanks,
Michael McGlothlin
Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 1, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Steve Swales <steve_at_swales.us> wrote:
>
> Personally, I love this idea, and would like to claim first authorship 😉. Here’s a snippet from the email I sent to my old colleagues at Apple back on April 15th (not the 1st):
>
>> Hi, Apple iOS/Keyboard/Design//I18n folks,
>>
>> Just wanted to say, nice work on the new Emoji keyboard design and expanded repertoire. I desperately wish the skin tone modifiers would work on the beer emoji, however. Need my porter and stout. Maybe next update? For old times' sake? 😃 .
>
> -steve
>
>> On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org> wrote:
>>
>> Document L2/15-211, "Letter in support of dark beer emoji"
>> <http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15221-cerveza-indio-letter.pdf>, is a
>> request submitted by Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma, a Mexican brewery.
>>
>> The letter refers to a petition with more than 22,000 signatures
>> supporting such an emoji, and may have at least some commercial
>> motivation ("We want the dark beer to be part of peoples
>> conversations").
>>
>> As an alternative to this proposal that may provide more flexibility, I
>> propose adapting the Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers from U+1F3FB to
>> U+1F3FF to be valid for use following U+1F37A BEER MUG or U+1F37B
>> CLINKING BEER MUGS.
>>
>> This could be done by establishing a normative correlation between the
>> Fitzpatrick scale and the Standard Reference Method (SRM), Lovibond,
>> and/or European Brewery Convention (EBC) beer color scales
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_style#Appearance>.
>>
>> This mechanism would allow the entire spectrum of beer styles to be
>> depicted, instead of dividing beers arbitrarily into "light" and "dark,"
>> in the same way (and for the same reason) that Unicode already supports
>> a variety of skin tones.
>>
>> For example, a Budweiser or similar lager could be represented as
>> 🍺🏻 <1F37A, 1F3FB>, while a Newcastle Brown Ale might be 🍺🏽
>> <1F37A, 1F3FD>. U+1F3FF could denote imperial stout or Baltic porter.
>> There might be a need to encode an additional "Type 0" color modifier to
>> extend the "light" end of the scale, such as for non-alcoholic brews, or
>> for Coors Light.
>>
>> U+1F37B could be used to denote two beers of the same style, but for
>> beers of different colors, the mechanism described in UTR #51, Section
>> 2.2.1 ("Multi-Person Groupings"), involving ZWJ, could be utilized. So a
>> toast between drinkers of the two beers above could be encoded as
>> 🍺🏻‍🍺🏽 <1F37A, 1F3FB, 200D, 1F37A, 1F3FD>. Longer sequences
>> would also be possible, such as for beer samplers offered in some pubs
>> and restaurants.
>>
>> I have no idea whether my proposal is more or less serious, or more or
>> less likely to be adopted, than the original.
>>
>> --
>> Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸
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Received on Wed Sep 02 2015 - 13:00:16 CDT