i-mode Emoji

iモード絵文字 / 1998-1999 / Style / Symbol Systems

One hundred and seventy six pictographs that tell faces, weather and things apart using only the placement of dots on a twelve by twelve grid. Shigetaka Kurita drew them for NTT DOCOMO's i-mode, and MoMA holds the original set.

Figures fitted to a twelve by twelve grid / Shapes made of mass rather than of line / Set inline at the size of a letter / Faces, weather and symbols at one coarseness

i-mode Emoji — Open source emoji set Twemoji (CC BY 4.0)i-mode Emoji — Google Noto Color Emoji, emoji from each category — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0i-mode Emoji — EmojiOne 2.2.7, smiling face, 2016 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
Open source emoji set Twemoji (CC BY 4.0) ／ Google Noto Color Emoji, emoji from each category — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 ／ EmojiOne 2.2.7, smiling face, 2016 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Designing signs that must read at the size of a letter as one set on a coarse grid · Telling state by a figure instead of a word where only a few dots can be lit
Type
Built from masses of dots rather than lines, sized to sit inline at the height of the text
Composition
The coarse grid fixed first, every figure told apart inside that one cell
Material
Faces, weather and things held at one coarseness, dots reduced to the limit where they still read apart
Caution
Chasing fine detail inside the grid clogs the dots, and at the size of the text the figure no longer says what it is.
Further study
Kurita's original set / Unicode standardization / comparing vendor design dialects

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