Artist palette

Paint dabbed on a palette means making art: painting, creativity and design work.

Artists put it in bios and project posts, and design teams use it for color and style work. It pairs with 🖌️ for painting and can also describe someone colorful and creative.

Facts

Artist palette 🎨 is an emoji in the activities category, under arts crafts. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 3 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :art: or :artist_palette:. People also look for it with words like “art”, “artist”, “artsy”, or “arty”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
2. 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)👨‍🎨👩‍🎨
3. 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)🧑‍🎨

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

activities · Unicode 6.0