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The ballerina reminds us that her grace goes beyond center stage and inhabits all spaces as she pushes for greater […] The post TheGrio Awards, Trailblazer Icon: Misty Copeland appeared first on TheGrio.

If you want to create your own emoji on Snapchat, it’s actually pretty easy. All you need is a photo of yourself that you can use as a reference. Snapchat provides a few different tools that you can use to create your own emoji. First, open up the Snapchat app and tap on the little […]

Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today.

Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost.

A text containing a leafless tree, a spade, and face with bags under its eyes might be cause for concern, but the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee has decided these

We take the Web for granted as that thing thats there and we talk of things being good or bad for the Web, but we dont ever sit down and really say what the Web is for. I take a look at this question with an eye towards understanding what it is we need to do to build a Web thats actually better.

This is the latest effort by the American Ballet Theatre’s first Black woman principal dancer to diversify ballet both on and off the stage.

When scrolling through the substantial offering of emojis on Apple products, users will find a pink — and only pink — pair of pointe ballet shoes. Misty…

Ballerina Misty Copeland launched a petition to urge Apple and the Unicode Consortium to introduce more skin tones for the pointe shoe emoji.

The recently released Unicode 15.1 brings with its an array of new emoji for us, including shaking and nodding heads, a lime, a phoenix, an edible mushroom and a broken chain.