To be accurate, the emoji are not actually 3D, they’re just shaded to give a 3D appearance. Microsoft recently made them open source via Github for anyone to use. And I want to use them (okay, maybe not all of them) because they’re just so adorable, odd or both.
Admittedly, some of them veer toward nightmare-inducing. Observe the pseudo-3D clown:
But this cow face is so dang cute!
Someone in the comments of the Ars story said the surprised face emoji “looks like someone got kicked in the nuts” and I can’t really argue otherwise:
I wonder how easy it would be to add these to WordPress? I wonder how much I would abuse them if I did?
