linebender / linebender/parley

Support configuring preferred emoji presentation

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Rust
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Description

Emoji often have both:

  • A full-color pictoral representation (using emoji-specific font formats)
  • A monotone textual representation (using regular glyph font formats)

Parley/Fontique should allow the user to specify a preference as a style and select a font with the appropriate representation during font fallback. Additionally, in some cases unicode characters U+FE0E and U+FE0F can be used to select a preference in the text stream. And Parley/Fontique should support a mode that selects the mode by using these characters.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/Properties/font-variant-emoji

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Research direction

Start by reading Parley and Fontique's font-fallback and style-handling paths, along with the referenced MDN guidance on emoji presentation and variation selectors. Define how an explicit style preference and U+FE0E/U+FE0F-driven selection interact, then verify that fallback chooses the matching font representation in both modes.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
computer-graphics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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