While there’s an emoji to represent almost everything these days, popular dating app Tinder believes that one significant group has been left out by the Unicode Consortium- interracial couples. In order to include interracial couples, Tinder has launched an online campaign to officially add an interracial couple emoji to the existing emoji character set.
The campaign, called Interracial Couple Emoji Project, suggests 21 combinations of one basic emoji concept- the couple with a heart between the. The combinations will account for various gender and race combinations and is expected to include all categories that aren’t currently represented.
The company acknowledges that implementing the combinations could be “technically challenging” but argues that major tech companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have “some of the top technical talent in the world” and if anyone can implement the combinations it’ll be someone from one of those companies.
