When the news hit Monday that Apple’s next update for the iPhone would have 300 new emoji, the most exciting part was that we’d finally get a more diverse selection of skin tones for the human emoji.

Heath Racela identifies as three-quarters white and one-quarter Filipino. When texting, he chooses a yellow emoji instead of a skin tone option, because he feels it doesn't represent any specific ...

The yellow emoji. Using yellow because it’s neutral came up a lot in my conversations. “I always saw the original yellow emoji as universal (i.e. not any actual human skin colour therefore inclusive / ...