What ๐งโ๐จ means
A person with a ๐จ palette and brush, standing for painters, illustrators and creative work of any kind.
Artists use it to share new work, commissions and sketchbook pages. Anyone can send it for a craft project, nail art, a home makeover or a carefully plated meal. It also praises skill: โyou're such an artist ๐งโ๐จโ.
Facts
Artist ๐งโ๐จ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and ๐จ artist palette. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :artist:. People also look for it with words like โpaletteโ.
Made of
๐ง+๐จ=๐งโ๐จ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2020
2025
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.1