Emoji skin color

[groth]

Hi Everyone, 

It was brought to my attention by one of my colleagues that for the available default emojis on Webex there are no default skin colors available (it defaults to a lighter skin tone). I'm concerned that this is a microaggression- e.g. if your skin color is anything other than the default then it is other/different. I believe there are plugins to add additional skin colors, but it's an extra step to do and not a default. 

A solution would be to make all skin colors available by default. 

Can we make this happen?

Thank you, 

Claire

[pmckenzie]

Hey there Claire

have you seen this site

"

Emoji characters can be modified to use one of five different skin tone modifiers. Each tone is based on the Fitzpatrick Scale.

An Emoji Modifier Sequence is created automatically when a modifier character is inserted after a supported base emoji character, resulting in a single emoji with skin tone.

Many emojis with skin tones are Emoji ZWJ Sequences, due to the presence of additional characters for gender, multiple people, or a combination of people and objects.

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https://emojipedia.org/emoji-modifier-sequence/