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What is Mutant Standard?

Mutant Standard is an emoji standard that is a semi-compatible offshoot of Unicode Standard.

Various Unicode emoji characters are altered or ignored entirely and there are many new emoji and emoji combinations.

Why a different standard?

  • Unicode and big tech companies should not have a monopoly on digital graphical communication.
  • There are needs from various people, who are unlikely to get emoji they would like into the Unicode Standard.
  • Unicode’s emoji system often represents a cultural, political and economic status quo.

Why a technical standard?

  • It enables as many people to benefit from Mutant emoji as much as possible.

Key points about Mutant Standard

  • All people-based glyphs are gender-neutral.
  • All gendered Unicode emoji are not used.
  • Family and couple ZWJs are not used in favour of letting people place different people together in any configuration they want.