Finland’s official tourism website has designed a series of national emoji—the first nation to do so, as ThisisFINLAND proclaims with what we assume is pride.

To spell Finland in English, you need six different letters. To say it in emoji, Finland would like to be known as either sauna, socks, heavy-metal headbanger or “girl power.” The Nordic ...

Finland is proud of its culture, its climate and its history, and it plans to show them off in a rather unique fashion: emoji. The tiny graphics are found on practically every smartphone and ...

The Unicode Consortium has approved 51 new playful images for emoji keyboards found on the world’s smartphones, including a cartoon character in a steamy room to represent Finland.

Finland is launching a set of ‘national emojis’ to help promote the country’s image abroad, the Associated Press reports. Created by the Finnish Foreign Ministry, the new emoji will include ...

Working with Nokia, Finland distilled its essence down to 30 emoji that it will roll out over the next month. You can get the first three—a naked couple in a sauna, a spiked-leather-wearing ...

Finland, that northern European haven of moose, death metal, and milk, has just become the first country to create a set of national emoji. More than 30 Finland-specific emoji will be available to ...

In 2016 anything is possible! So we were not surprised to hear that a town in Finland wants to name streets after emojis. Specifically they would like to name their two roads Emoji and Meme streets.

Finland’s emoji, then, are not real emoji. They are something far more nefarious: Efauxji. They are mere images masquerading as glyphs, pretenders to the emoji throne.

Finland is launching its very own Emoji Ellen Scott Published November 5, 2015 11:22am Updated December 11, 2019 12:20pm Comments ...