The non-profit group that oversees international coding standards for smiley faces and

The non-profit group that oversees international coding standards for smiley faces and other mobile characters is working on a range of skin-tones — including the existing yellow and five other shades.

The Unicode Consortium yesterday submitted a proposal for improving the uniformity of emoticons, which included suggestions for making emojis more diverse.

“People all over the world want to have emoji that reflect more human diversity, especially for skin tone,” read the proposal on the consortium’s Web site.

The working draft of Unicode Version 8.0, which is due next year, draws on the Fitzpatrick dermatology scale for six tones.

Activists have been calling for black and other non-white characters. The standard emoji face, used to represent the users’ mood in text messages, is actually yellow in color with a round face and no hair.

hmmmm which one represents an Asian? Let me guess, the yellow? He doesn’t look quite like an Asian guy does he? Some of the darker ones could actually represent a South Asian.

via www.time.com