Get the most from Microsoft’s Emoji collection with a wonderful app, the Fluent Emoji Gallery with many options and puts Microsoft’s own emoji efforts to shame.
Microsoft’s Fluent Emoji collection are a great collection of 3D looking icons but they are a bear to find and use. Michał Łeptuch’s Fluent Emoji Gallery (FEG) lets you easily grab 3D and 2D color emoji plus plain black ones.
Search for an emoji by name or scroll through the many available by category. There’s 1,594 emojis in various styles and color variants currently available.
Mr Łeptuch has added features that are notably missing from the deplorable Windows Emoji Panel.
- Save As
- Copy Symbol
- Copy Unicode value
The emoji examples are a good size in a resizable window.
The Unicode value (e.g. 1564F in the above image) is clearly shown.
Other text search keywords/terms for the emoji are also shown, something the Emoji Panel hides.
If one guy can do all this, why won’t Microsoft do better?
3D, 2D or plain emoji
In Microsoft’s emoji buffet each one comes in up to four different flavors<g>.
- Plain emoji
- 2D color
- 3D color
- 3D color animated (see below)
Here’s some common emoji in all three static (not animated) versions of Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes, Folded Hands and Fire.
Animated Emoji
Some Fluent Emoji have an animated version. The Fluent Emoji Gallery lets you preview those animations then save them to PNG or GiF formats.
PowerPoint 2016 and later support animated GIF’s in slides. That means any Fluent animation can be added to a slide by importing the GIF file that the Fluent Emoji Gallery can make.
Find emoji
Emoji search is transparent to the user because any additional names or keywords for each emoji are clearly shown. This search for ‘smile’ not only shows emoji with that word in the official name but also other emoji that have the keyword. You can see why ‘Grinning squinting face’ is in a ‘smile’ search because that’s an alternate keyword and the FEG shows that.
Save / export options
This is where Fluent Emoji Gallery really shines. Pick an emoji, choose ‘Save As …’ to see a whole smorgasbord of formats.
For modern Office users, the SVG option is important for importing into Word, Excel or PowerPoint. SVG format can be resized, recolored and other changes. See Finding more SVG or Icons for your Office documents
Get the Fluent Emoji Gallery or from the Microsoft Store.
Extra symbols with Segoe Fluent Icon font for Word & Office
