[Private Project, WIP] Modern Custom Emojis

[aFrInati0n]

Hey community,

the old Emojis may have reached their iconic status since long, I still wanted to test for the possibilities of creating a modernized version.

As I finally had time for a little side project, I want to share you the current WIP status & ask for opinions:

1. What is your honest opinion?
   (I am open for any feedback please, the critical ones are most of the times the best!)
2. Does the shape of the head fit a rough estimate of a Minifigure head?
   (I did intentionally not want to have a 1:1 copy, because of IP issues)
3. How do you like the gradients, creating the impression of some visual depth?
4. Some faces are not always a 100% fit towards the brick-heads - how much do these details annoy you?

Please be aware that is is currently just a free-time-project of mine with the main interest of improving my Python programming skills & create at least something useful from it.. ;)

Here is the current selected set of new emojis as SVGs:

 

[SpacePolice89]

I like these and they would be a great addition to the old ones and I'm totally fine with the head shape but please don't remove the old ones.

[aFrInati0n]

Thanks for the feedback & I have the exact samefeeling that they may not ever be considered a replacement for the old ones -  as some possibly useful outcome has been produced from my PoC I wanted to ask for opinions - I have not planned to replace anything at any point please.

But we may have more additional options in the future. 

One more sentence possibly for my motivation: The forum vendor has implemented the so called Twemoji library (Open Source, from former Twitter) & as the emojis are offered as vector graphics (can be scaled without quality loss), I wanted to test how replacements of the vector graphic elements may work in programmatic ways and what level of outcome could be achieved.