Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : fonts-noto-emoji Upstream Author : googlei18n * URL : https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji * License : SIL Open Font License v1.1 (fonts) and Apache v2.0 (tools and image resources). Programming Lang: Python, C Description : "No Tofu" emoji font
Emoji are an extremely common form of expression in modern communication, yet the present options for displaying them in Debian are hacky at best. For example, this effort https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji will display emoji correctly in Firefox but will only be black-and-white system-wide (so not in Chrome). Similarly, ttf-ancient-fonts can be installed for very ugly, B&W emoji. The best solution I've currently found is based on this post: http://stdio.tumblr.com/post/114082931782 and involves: downloading NotoColorEmoji.ttf from the noto-fonts Android git repository, copying it to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, and creating a /etc/fonts/conf.d/01-notoemoji.conf with the contents: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <match target="scan"> <test name="family"> <string>Noto Color Emoji</string> </test> <edit name="scalable" mode="assign"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> </fontconfig> However, NotoColorEmoji can be built from its source at https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji and it has a very friendly license. It would be great to have the NotoColorEmoji font as a Debian package to be easily installed and automatically configured.