Yesterday was really intense. It was announced on new Pixel 3a, we discovered the Android Q Beta 3 and they revealed many new features at the software level (such as the new gestures in android) that will reach the ecosystem of Google. One of them, however, has now been uncovered: the commitment to the gender nonfluid emoji. We explain what and how they are.
Gender Fluid Emojis on Google
Over the years emojis have become much more inclusive. Now we have female emojis working on research, images of couples made up of two men or two women and with wildly varied skin tones that go beyond yellow.
Today the collection of emojis on Android goes a step further, with the commitment to fluid gender emojis. In this way, Google gives greater visibility to the non-binary genders, which corresponds to those gender identities that are not associated with the binary genders (male and female) and that are outside of cisnormativity (the one in which a person's gender identity coincides with their sexual phenotype).
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Within the broad meaning of non-binary genders is the gender, which serves to represent those people who do not identify with a single gender identity, but rather "flows" between several (feminine, masculine, neutral...). From now on they will be able to feel more comfortable with the new 53 “ambiguous” emojis (they look like both a man and a woman), which have been added to a beta prepared, for the moment, only for pixel phones -available this week.
The idea is that these emojis are then available to anyone who has a smartphone with Android Q (at the end of the year) and, of course, that other firms such as Apple also join this successful trend to also include them in their iOS portfolio. Jennifer Daniel, a designer at Google, is clear: “It is as if we were all in a pool and the water was cold. Some people want to go swimming, but first they will wait for someone else to do it. […] We just dived first».
El design of these emojis has not been easy, they count on Fast Company. The team in charge carried out numerous erasers and he spent a lot of time creating versions of some of the existing emoji that weren't necessarily male or female. It was played with the length of the by the or hairstyle, as well as with clothing. Even slightly more particular emojis like mermen and mermaids now have a neutral third partner; The same happens with the vampire emojis and even with the swimming professional - look at the clothes and accessories they wear in the image below.
And what if someone with a Pixel sends you a neutral emoji? Well, on your phone, yes it is not compatible, it will appear with a masculine or feminine gender until other companies, as we pointed out, decide to throw themselves at that pool and propose your gender fluid emojis.
The objective of all this is still to try to offer a much more global image and thus embrace a community that has proven to be much more open and broad than it was believed a few decades ago. So welcome this diversity and its emojis. Good for Google.