It seems that Emojis are gaining strength in the world of online communication. We all know a friend or family member who uses more Emojis than text characters. And it is that many times, it is easier to express an idea or a feeling through an Emoji than through words.
Therefore in Ubunlog we want to teach you how can we use Emojis directly in our Ubuntu, through the application EmojiOne Font. This is a very simple application to install and use that now, after the new update, will allow us to see Emojis in color in Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird. We tell you.
Many of you will already know this application and you will already have it installed, but you may not know that from now on, after the new update, we can already view Emojis in color.
As we said, it will only be possible to see Emojis in color in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and other apps related to Gecko. Sadly, Google Chorme doesn't support SGV Open Fonts yet, and neither do many native Linux tools such as Cairo or GTK +. Even so, it is worth installing this application if we usually use Emojis frequently, since it will make things very easy for us.
Installing EmojiOne Color Fonts
EmojiOne Color Fonts is Free and OpenSource Software. So to install this App the first step is to go to your GitHub repository and proceed to download the corresponding .zip package (which we will see if we go down a bit on the page).
Once we have the .zip downloaded, you have to unzip it and move the file EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT.ttf in the folder ~ / home / .fonts /, where the system fonts are stored.
Remember that in GNU / Linux the directories and files that begin with a period (.) Are hidden directories. To be able to access them manually, you have to click Ctrl + H, which will show all hidden files and directories.
In addition, the new version has a bash script that will do all the installation work for us. To do this, we go back to your Github page and download the compressed file .tar.gz called EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-Linux-1.0.tar.gz. You can also download it by clicking directly here.
Once downloaded and unzipped, we just have to go to the unzipped directory, and run the script install.sh that we will find inside it:
cd EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-Linux-1.0
Sh install.sh
Setting up the font
Now is the time to configure the system to be able to use EmojiOne Color correctly.
The first step is create a directory inside the .config folder. To do this, we open a terminal and execute the following:
mkdir -p ~ / .config / fontconfig /
Now, inside the created directory, we create a file called fonts.conf:
cd ~ / .config / fontconfig /
touchfonts.conf
Now we copy the following content within fonts.conf:
<!–
Make Emoji One Color the initial fallback font for sans-serif, sans, and
monospace. Override any specific requests for Apple Color Emoji.
->
sans-serif
Emoji One Color
serif
Emoji One Color
monospace
Emoji One Color
Apple Color Emoji
Emoji One Color
Also, being an App that is still under development, there are a number of known bugs that are still present. You can see the list of the errors not yet fixed here.
Remember that you can only see Emojis in color in applications that support it (basically Firefox and Thunderbird). On the other hand, in Chrome and other tools like Cairo or GTK + you will only be able to view monochrome Emojis until they add support for SVG fonts.
Finally, you can go to this link to check if the font is working properly. Easy right? Well, from now on you can use Emojis as a source in your browser (Firefox). We hope you liked the article and that you leave us your opinion in the comments section. You can also do it if you have any kind of problem. See you 🙂