On 1/18/2018 10:01 AM, John H. Jenkins wrote:
> Well, you can go with Venus = white planet, Mercury = grey planet,
> Uranus = greenish planet, Neptune = bluish planet, Jupiter = striped
> planet.
>
> As you say, though, without a context, none of them convey much and
> Venus, at least, would just be a circle.
>
> Plus there's the question of the context in which someone would want
> to send little pictures of the planets. This sounds like it would be
> adding emoji just because.
"Earth" as in "a blue ball in space" is something that reached iconic
status after the famous photo taken during the early Apollo missions. I
could definitely see that used in a variety of possible contexts. And
the recognition value is higher than for many recent emoji.
Saturn, with its rings (even though it's no longer the only one known
with rings) also is iconic and highly recognizable. I lack imagination
as to when someone would want to use it in communication, but I have the
same issue with quite a few recent emoji, some of which are far less
iconic or recognizable. I think it does lend itself to describe a
"non-earth" type planet, or even the generic idea of a planet (as
opposed to a star/sun).
Mars and Venus have tons of connotations, which could be expressed by
using an emoji (as opposed to the astrological symbol for each), but
only Mars is reasonably recognizable without lots of pre-established
context. That red color.
In a detailed enough rendering, Jupiter, as a shaded "ball" with stripes
and red dot would more recognizable than any of the remaining planets
(on par or better with many recent emoji), but I see even less scope for
using it metaphorically or in extended contexts.
If someone were to make a proposal, I would suggest to them to limit it
to these four and to provide more of a suggestion as to how these might
show up in use.
A./
>
>> On Jan 18, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode
>> <unicode_at_unicode.org <mailto:unicode_at_unicode.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/18/2018 6:55 AM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote:
>>> Hello people.
>>>
>>> We have sun, earth and moon emoji (3 for the earth and more for the
>>> moon's phases). But we don't have emoji for the rest of the planets.
>>>
>>> We have astrological symbols for all the planets and a few
>>> non-existent imaginary "planets" as well.
>>>
>>> Given this, would it be impractical to encode proper emoji characters
>>> for the rest of the planets, at least the major ones whose physical
>>> characteristics are well known and identifiable?
>>>
>>> I mean for example identifying Sedna and Quaoar
>>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EightTNOs.png) is probably not
>>> going to be practical for all those other than astronomy buffs but the
>>> physical shapes of the major planets are known to all high school
>>> students…
>>>
>> Earth = blue planet (with clouds)
>>
>> Mars = red planet
>>
>> Saturn = planet with rings
>>
>> I don't think any of the other ones are identifiable in a
>> context-free setting, unless you draw a "big planet with red dot" for
>> Jupiter.
>>
>> Earth would have to be depicted in a way that doesn't focus on
>> "hemispheres", or you miss the idea of it as "planet".
>>
>>
>> A./
>>
>>
>
Received on Thu Jan 18 2018 - 12:46:41 CST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Thu Jan 18 2018 - 12:46:41 CST
