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themodelplumber
Lovely, I was able to make a nauseous cat emoji within seconds. Wish I had this during idle vet-appointment chat earlier today...thank you
warning26
It's nice to see these outside of GBoard! Some really creative designs.
phailhaus
This is incredible, how did you pull this off? I love what you did with the favicon and the page title too!
jitkoff
The combinations are the work of a very talented team. (See https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc...)

This viewer is just a small hack to let you look through what already exists : ) Source: https://github.com/alcor/emoji-supply/tree/main/docs/kitchen

ec109685
How does it work under the covers?
csrf-token
humans drew the pictures.
Helmut10001
I searched everywhere - first, I thought AI style transfer, but it looked too clever.
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heynowheynow
I estimate 4.5 human-years of effort (1.5 years nonstop).
vxNsr
Wait so someone at google added this to gBoard unofficially. We need someone to create an apple keyboard with this too.
yreg
Are they free?

The following makes it sound like these websites pirate the graphics, so that wouldn't work for a keyboard for the App Store.

>If you have an Android device I recommend downloading Gboard and giving it a whirl. If you don't have a phone running on Android … you could consider getting one lololol or trying it out on a number of unofficial websites (tsk tsk! I don't approve!!! :Face-with-Symbols-on-Mouth-emoji:)

— https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitc...

vxNsr
Ok, I read her article but didn’t follow the links. The emoji kitchen is a google gBoard project, Jennifer works on the gBoard team and is part of the emoji kitchen team. All the other sites are just documenting (in fun ways) the work that the emoji kitchen team is doing. And apparently regular non-google people can submit combined emojis to the emoji kitchen to be added.

I guess it’s a question of who owns the copyright.

comboy
Such a disappointment. Great work though.
stavros
Disappointment?! It's amazing!
gnarbarian
how do I use this with Gboard?
Aunche
You have to enable "emoji stickers". Then you type two emojis and you'll see a sticker suggestion pop up on the top of the GBoard if it exists.
qbasic_forever
For me if I type two emojis it starts showing suggestions for other emojis, and the first one is always the kitchen combo if it exists.
t0astbread
These are amazing! I just hope Google won't pull the plug on this viewer since the images are hosted on gstatic.com.
ehsankia
Yeah, there used to be an official emoji kitchen website long before it was integrated into Gboard, but they go rid of it after the Gboard integration :\

I've been looking for a site like this since, apparently there's a few others like: https://emojikitchen.dev/

labster
It should be possible to make a font that combines these with ligatures, right? It’s kinda sad for these to be limited to one app.
eyelidlessness
It’s definitely possible with ligatures. I’m not looking for a side project at the moment, but if you have free time that disappointment might be just a side project away for you. Edit: respecting/crediting others’ work as appropriate of course!
forrestthewoods
Are these all done by hand? That’s a stupendous amount of custom work.
npilk
See also: https://tikolu.net/emojimix/
Oarch
Was just thinking this
sph
I love the most popular one, the sad face meme hiding behind the happy mask.

Too bad I can't share because that site has emojis in the URL and HN eats them.

derefr
Most of these "do the obvious", but the thing+itself combinations are a lot more fun.
andoma
100 + 100 = 1000 :)
heynowheynow
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jareklupinski
Tornado Octopus is terrifying https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%90%99+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B...

Tornado Cherry makes a smoothie! https://emoji.supply/kitchen/?%F0%9F%8D%92+%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B...

solardev
This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen on the internet.
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eCa
What is the most amazong thing you have seen on the internet?
solardev
It's probably the one that lets you combine THREE emoji.
jszymborski
My brain is broken, all I can think is that this would make a wonderful deep learning dataset. Too small to train on, but big enough to fine-tune on.
ChrisArchitect
Am confused - is this new? I mean, Emoji Kitchen has been around for almost a year now -- but I can't remember if this site had all the combos before? It used to be just two at a time or something?

Wish there was a proper About -- is it that all the combos are now revealed?

PebblesRox
The interface is better than I remember - previously there were little vertical menus for picking the emojis, so only a few were visible at a time.

Edit: I'm remembering a different site with a similar concept: https://tikolu.net/emojimix/

And as someone else commented, there's also https://emojikitchen.dev/

ohlookcake
I was really hoping I could put on a , because that's an emotion that's hard to put into words
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roschdal
I prefer using the alphabet for all writing, because emojis are not freely and universally available everywhere :)
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0cVlTeIATBs
While these are typed using emoji, they are sent as images, so they do not rely on fonts.

I would have tested it myself in Gboard, but it relies on the "suggestions" feature which requires internet access, which I will not accept for a keyboard app.

dimator
If textual communication is about the lowest common denominator of capabilities, no one would be commenting in hacker news comments :)
qbasic_forever
These are actually images, no device has emoji fonts to support the combos. On gBoard it pops them in as stickers/images so anyone can see them.