Google emojis blob. All blobs that are uploaded to official blob emoji servers are licensed under the apache license 20 the same license that noto emoji by google are licensed under. Gmail and hangout are using these blob emoji. Theyre squishy and lovable and designed for more consistent communication.
These emojis also called noto emoji which is one of open source project by google. Googles blob character first entered the scene in 2013 when smileys that looked like aliens in older android releases were replaced in android 44. We expect google will change to new design in the near future.
The latest version of android will kill the blob style emoji and replace them. First google made the features in their expressions clearer and more pronounced. Googles blob like emojis which look like someone dropped bart simpson in a deep fryer first appeared in 2013 according to emojipedia yep.
Then in 2015 it unified the blob into a single. Make sure to follow the license. The following year google redesigned.
Android 70 nougat is the first release of android to support modifiersfor skin tone. Googles emojis have had a gumdrop blob shape since android 43 and it seems that google is finally ready to adopt the circular face emoji thats available on multiple platforms out there. Android 5 lollipop furthered this trend in 2014 by making all emojis including the humans use various incarnations of blob gumdrop or worm.
Design changes from android 601 include front facing smileys and a replacement of gender neutral blob characters with malefemale versions. These emoji images are from the final version of android 70 nougat which was released on august 22 2016. Blob emoji has been redisgned at 2017 09 13 but not applied into googles product yet.