Defining primary color with ZWJ sequences
Emoji hearts come in many colors, but so do books.
Let’s use either one like Fitzpatrick skin tone modifieres,
but with mandatory Zero Width Joiner U+200D,
e.g. green car:
either 🚗💚 / 🚘💚
or 🚗📗 / 🚘📗.
Hearts
| Color |
Unicode |
Sample |
| White |
U+2661 |
♡️ |
| Black |
U+2665/1F5A4 |
♥️/🖤 |
| Red |
U+2764 |
❤️ |
| Yellow |
U+1F49B |
💛 |
| Green |
U+1F49A |
💚 |
| Blue |
U+1F499 |
💙 |
| Purple |
U+1F49C |
💜 |
| Orange |
U+1F9E1 |
🧡 |
| Pink |
U+1F49F/D/8/3/7 |
💟/💝/💘/💓/💗 |
| Broken |
U+1F494 |
💔 |
| Sparks |
U+1F496 |
💖 |
Circles and Diamonds
| Color |
Unicode |
Sample |
| White |
U+26AA |
⚪️ |
| Black |
U+26AB |
⚫️ |
| Red |
U+1F534 |
🔴 |
| Blue |
U+1F535 |
🔵 |
| Blue |
U+1F537 |
🔷 |
| Orange |
U+1F536 |
🔶 |
Books
| Color |
Unicode |
Sample |
| Red/Pink |
U+1F4D5 |
📕 |
| Green |
U+1F4D7 |
📗 |
| Blue |
U+1F4D8 |
📘 |
| Orange |
U+1F4D9 |
📙 |
| Yellow |
U+1F4D2 |
📒 |
| Monochrome |
U+1F4D3 |
📓 |
| Decorative |
U+1F4D4 |
📔 |
| Multiple |
U+1F4DA |
📚 |
Heraldic Color Patterns
“Tincture”
| Color |
Unicode |
Sample |
Hatching |
| Black |
U+25A0 |
■ |
Solid |
| White (argent) |
U+25A1 |
□ |
None, blank |
| Blue (azure) |
U+25A4 |
▤ |
Horizontal stripes |
| Red (gules) |
U+25A5 |
▥ |
Vertical stripes |
| Black (sable) |
U+25A6 |
▦ |
Square pattern |
| Green (vert) |
U+25A7 |
▧ |
Forward diagonals |
| Purple (purpure) |
U+25A8 |
▨ |
Backward diagonals |
| Maroon (sanguine) |
U+25A9 |
▩ |
Diamond pattern |
| Brown (tenné) |
U+? |
? |
Vertical-forward crosshatch |
| Light Shade |
U+2591 |
░ |
|
| Medium Shade (or) |
U+2592 |
▒ |
Dotted |
| Dark Shade |
U+2593 |
▓ |
|