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.
This is the seventh entry in the series, and I can’t get past the feeling that it’s a bit half-assed. Well, 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.