Animating emojis
Another Unicode adventure
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Last year I realized that the Camera emoji comes in two flavors. Well, brace yourselves, I found another pair: Hourglass Done, and Hourglass Not Done. Here’s what Emojipedia has to say about the former:
A classic hourglass, all of its sand having flowed into the bottom bulb. Indicates time has passed. […] Not to be confused with Hourglass Not Done, [where the] sand is still flowing.
When I put clock faces under scrutiny in 2022, I concluded that they’d make a nice loading spinner
. Well, this is even more true it comes to this year’s edition, which may remind you of a certain mouse cursor from a long time ago.
As always, how the actual animation presents itself depends heavily on the set of emojis your OS has to offer. Enjoy it on CodePen in all its rotating glory.