An egg being held in Skyrim VR, decorated in Mutant Standard flag emoji
Something familiar appearing in Trans Lifeline's Peer2Peer stream :)
peer2peer.live
A digital schedule for the "Trans World Visibility Streamathon," organized by Trans Lifeline. The schedule spans from March 24 to March 31, listing streamers by their usernames for each day and hour in Pacific Time. The background is pink with playful icons like headphones, stars, and a disco ball. The event encourages viewers to follow along at www.peer2peer.live.
Who’s ready for a week of trans excellence and debauchery?! 🎉✨
The wait is over—our #TransPower streamer lineup is HERE! Get ready for nonstop fun, fierce talent, and pure trans joy. The Visibility Streamathon starts March 24th—don’t miss it! Follow along at peer2peer.live and join the celebration!
a pale purple canvas with sweeping white lines in the background, some black lines in front that frame content that is mostly not there apart from 4 minimalist vector emoji in the middle. There are a few different colour dots like spot colour marks in a print layout on the bottom right corner.
🔜
My thinking was that there's a lot of effort going into the designs and I was worried about doing a lot of low cost and free labour for the possibility of the gains of that to simply be captured by someone else. I'm rethinking it though.
Things being worked on for the next release:
- 📦 Bundles: Standardised chunks of the set to make it easier to handle and so folks can more easily get what they're looking for.
- 👆 Better downloads page and a complete demo page with modifiers and a metadata inspector.
- ✨ Rebrand
New handle! @mutant.tech
Some small updates talking about how things are generally going. 💚
ko-fi.com/Post/Hey-X7X...
mutant.tech should be working now! 🎉 If it's not working for you it's probably because the DNS changes need to take more time to propagate.
There should be no more downtime on the site due to expiring SSL certs now.
mutant.tech is down for a while while I migrate the site!
My emoji packs are mostly for admins of servers and services, but you might find a use case you can use via the guides at the top of the download page ^^.
Next Mutant Standard release:
✅ Working bundling
✅ Encoding documentation upgrade
🚧 Rebranding
🔳 Web redesign
🔳 Demo page redesign
🔳 (probably some other miscellaneous stuff)
Reposting for all the new folks who have joined Bluesky! 🙌
A Mutant Standard emoji text symbol (square box with a word in it) in the style of the brat meme, with bright green fill, lowercase text and low-resolution upscaled with basic anti-aliasing and mild JPEG artifacts.
ko-fi.com/post/Work-be...
New behind the scenes post for £4+ members on Ko-fi!
A purple canvas with the text "Mutant Standard survey!" in bold white font on the left. Below are two emoji: 1. a dizzy face 2. a dark green pointed ear.
If you're a developer, admin or just someone who uses Mutant Standard emoji, I want to hear from you!
I'm running a survey (which should take about 5 minutes) that will help me understand how you use Mutant Standard emoji and how I could make it better!
forms.office.com/r/NKV9urX7n1
A mint green background featuring four icons in the center: a black cat with a pink tongue, a green alien, a moai statue, and a bicycle. Below these icons, the text reads "2024.06 mutant.tech". There are 3 faces in the background of the graphic in faded teal colours - a smiling cat face, a frowning alien face, and a jack-o'-lantern face.
Mutant Standard 2024.06!
This is a modest design update bringing recent style changes to more emoji, and a few fun extras!
- Download: mutant.tech/download
- Build files: github.com/mutantstanda...
- Changelog: blog.mutant.tech/index.php/20...
- Support/Tip: ko-fi.com/cainoct
A grid of cat face icons with various expressions, with each row being a progressive iteration on the last. The icons include expressions such as grinning, laughing, crying with joy, heart eyes, winking and kissing, devious, and angry. There are also icons labeled as base versions with varying head shapes and expressions, some of which are annotated with handwritten text indicating adjustments or preferences. The icons are stylized with simple features, showing a black cat with yellow eyes and pink inner ears.
Some in-progress pics of emoji coming in this month's release.
My Ko-fi members on the £4+ tier saw the full design history 2 weeks ago, alongside exclusive notes and access to a live Discord chat that I post to as I work on these.
You can join them at ko-fi.com/cainoct/tiers !
#emoji #cat
A purple canvas with a collection of standard emoji symbols, such as a fire truck, a bowl of soup, a black cat face, smileys and hearts. Each has a distinctive flat vector look. The text "A new look on familiar emoji" is in bold white font on the left.
A purple canvas with a set of body gesture symbols and a toilet symbol, including various expressions. All of the people symbols are minimalist and gender-neutral in appearance, the toilet sign is gender neutral too, only depicting a toilet. The text "Truly gender-neutral symbols" is in bold white font on the left.
A purple canvas with a grid of hand symbols making a peace sign, trhey are in many different colours and shapes (human, clawed, paw, hoof) with the text "New customisation options" in bold white font on the left.
A purple canvas with various icons, including a lambda symbol, a sword, a pink d20 dice, gender symbols, pride flags, an emoticon, and a flaming poop emoji. The text "New ways to express yourself" is in bold white font on the left.
Mutant Standard is an emoji project that has a unique angle on standard emoji while providing a whole array of new emoji - giving different folks new ways to express themselves without asking for permission.
See more and download the set for free at mutant.tech.
#emoji #queer #furry
Another round of behind the scenes looks for £4+ members!
ko-fi.com/Post/Smiley-...
(will get back to showing y'all some older ones soon!)
Some designs were locked in for Mutant Standard 2024.06 last week, expect more! ✌️😺
(£4+ members already got to see what they look like! ko-fi.com/post/Finalis...)
Some designs were locked in for Mutant Standard 2024.06 last week, expect more! ✌️😺
(£4+ members already got to see what they look like! ko-fi.com/post/Finalis...)
I've got a fun behind the scenes post for £4+ Ko-fi members!
ko-fi.com/post/A-new-w...
I'm also going to start work again on releases, with a small release aimed for June 💚 #emoji #vector #design
A small plastic storage box without a lid with toiletries in it. on the front is a minimalist vector sticker of an orc with long hair on one side and shaved hair on the other.
Many years ago, I used to sell @mutantstandard.bsky.social merch via Redbubble. I got a few made for myself, many ended up on storage boxes.
When moving to this new place, I needed a makeshift thing to take my toiletries into the shared bathroom, so I went for this one with an orc sticker on it.
My recovery from domestic abuse the past year has not gone as well as hoped and I'm now in a situation where I will have no home next month and I don't have arrangements for where to go next.
I've started a GoFundMe to help improve my outcomes from this situation.
gofund.me/5254aabc
Hey, sorry for the lack of Mutant Standard 2024.02, I am faced with housing insecurity at the moment so it's hard to keep my head on the right track as well as do all the things I need to do.
I think the next release will have to wait until I have enough stuff and/or things get better.
💚
Someone on the Discord mentioned to me that Google has made a tool to build emoji fonts that will probably work a lot better than the tools I tried to make.
I know some folks out there still want fonts, so if you're one of them, you might want to check it out:
github.com/googlefonts/...
A collection of stylized, minimalistic renditions of people and objects representing a variety of expressions. The people are furries of different kinds, species and colours, there are smiley designs, and there are also two heart shapes, one adorned with a bow and the other plain. The icons have thick outlines and are against a grey background.
It was a very rough year for me, there were a lot of times where I could not get work done, but I still did a good many things I'm proud of and have been really happy to have the opportunity to do, here are some of them (not in chronological order). <3
A collection of various emoji faces arranged in a grid on a beige background. The emojis display a wide range of expressions and emotions, including happiness, sadness, love, surprise, anger, and silliness. Some emojis are also depicted with accessories such as sunglasses, halos, and hats, or are altered to resemble animals like cats and monkeys.
All of the completely redesigned or new smileys in Mutant Standard 2023.12.
I have said in the past that a long term goal of mine is to make my smileys among the cutest and most expressive out there and I think I am considerably closer to that goal than I was with the previous designs. 😄
A digital image with a tan background patterned with monochrome close-up smiley faces. At the center, there's a row of stylized emoji: scream, head shaking vertically, smiling face with hearts and outline face. Below the icons, the text "2023.12 mutant.tech" in dark brown.
Mutant Standard 2023.12
This update brings a complete redesign to most of the existing smileys and updates the smileys (mostly) to the latest Unicode 15 spec!
- Download: mutant.tech/download
- Build files: github.com/mutantstanda...
- Changelog: blog.mutant.tech/index.php/20...
Thank you! ^^
