All as a feature of its Windows 11 design push, Microsoft likewise published fun redesigns for emoji characters added more character and texture than the older Windows 8-and 10-era versions. Today, the organization is going above and beyond, open-sourcing most of these new “Fluent” emoji designs and publishing them to Github for anybody to modify and use.

Each open sourced emoji has three iterations: the completely 3D version, complete with surface and color gradients; a flat “color” version that holds the basic color yet eliminates textures and gradients (these are the ones you’ll check whether you open Windows 11’s emoji menu); and a monochromatic “high contrast” version. All emoji are being made accessible as .svg vector graphics files so they can be resized and generally manipulated without any loss of quality.

There are only a few Microsoft designs that it hasn’t open sourced, including the paperclip that seems to be Clippy (the person is evidently copyrighted). Several other emoji were rejected in light of the fact that Microsoft’s versions prohibit the Windows logo. There is no generic version of the paperclip emoticon recorded among the emoji Microsoft has published.

Most applications let the operating system that they’re running on handle emoji — you’ll see Microsoft’s emoticon set while you’re reading a message in Windows, Google’s assuming that you’re reading it on Android, or Apple’s assuming you’re reading it on an iPhone or Mac. However, individual applications and sites like Twitter or WhatsApp some of the time supersede your OS’s emoticon delivering for utilizing their own, halfway to guarantee that the characters appear to be identical, paying little heed to where they’re being seen.

If more applications and specialists decide to use Microsoft’s emoji designs, it could give the organization somewhat more command over what emoticon resemble on all platforms. The Unicode Consortium is the arbiter of the over 3,600 standard emoji characters, yet greater organizations can impact the specifics for individual characters, as when Apple chose in 2016 to change the “pistol” emoji from a handgun to a bright green squirt gun. Different organizations followed after accordingly, and presently a more toy-like rendering is the standard across most platforms.