These are now available for Windows Insiders, with build 15002 that was made available as a preview on the Fast ring early last week.
In fact, as noted, these include interracial couples for the very first time on any major platform. A total of 144 new designs are included, highlighting several genres and professions.
According to the source:
“Until now, all platforms have only supported the default yellow skin tone for Couple With Heart and Kiss. While the current yellow skin tone is intended as a ‘non-human’ default skin tone, it’s clear that some users see this as a defacto white skin tone. As such, the issue of emojis for interracial couples or couples with darker skin tones has been an ongoing one, that Microsoft appears to be addressing in this update.”
Worth a mention here that although these new emojis are already available in this build, they are not included in the emoji keyboard. In other words, if you want to use them, you can only include them in your text by using copy and paste.
Anyway, the above image shows a comparison between the new emojis in Windows 10 build 15002, Windows 8.1, macOS Sierra and Android. Goes to show that Microsoft certainly spends a lot of time to get the look of these emoticons right with the overall feel of its operating platform.
And with the Creators Update set to launch in April, we can expect the emoji keyboard to be updated with these and more such emoticons and smileys.
source:windows10update
