1,447 emoji? We’ll do it live

1,447 emoji? We’ll do it live by Hylke on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 One of the things you get to do after being laid off is a lot of reflection, but also to revisit all the old projects you used to contribute to. One of them was Pidgin: “the universal chat client”.

1,447 个表情符号？我们要直播完成了。作者：Hylke，2026 年 10 月 27 日，星期二。被裁员后，你可以做的事情之一就是进行大量的反思，同时也可以重温你曾经参与过的所有旧项目。其中之一就是 Pidgin：“通用聊天客户端”。

The new Pidgin 3 app icon and a handful emoji I designed the original emoticon set for version 2 and helped redesign the user interface when the project was renamed from Gaim after a legal dispute. Meanwhile, after a huge rewrite, Pidgin 3 is making progress towards a first release and I’ve been helping out here and there with a new app icon and some status symbols for the development releases.

全新的 Pidgin 3 应用图标和少量表情符号。我曾为第 2 版设计了最初的表情符号集，并在该项目因法律纠纷从 Gaim 更名时，协助重新设计了用户界面。与此同时，经过大规模重写，Pidgin 3 正朝着首次发布迈进，我一直在零星地提供帮助，包括为开发版本设计新的应用图标和一些状态符号。

Emoji I’ve been meaning to start live streaming my weekly app icon work to share a look in the kitchen of the icon design process, but once I gathered the courage to start a test run, the experience wasn’t amazing. I need something I can return to consistently without needing a new plan every time… So why not create a base set of 1,447 emoji for Pidgin in GNOME-style exclusively live on stream? What could go wrong?

表情符号。我一直打算开始直播我每周的应用图标工作，分享图标设计过程的幕后花絮，但当我鼓起勇气进行测试时，体验并不理想。我需要一些可以持续进行、而无需每次都制定新计划的事情……那么，为什么不在直播中专门为 Pidgin 创建一套 GNOME 风格的 1,447 个基础表情符号呢？能出什么差错呢？

Here’s the design file to keep me accountable, so I can’t sneakily make progress offline! Twitch I’ll be chipping away at it a few times a week. Follow me on Twitch to get a notification when I go live. We’ll grab a cup of tea, put on some music, and get through the winter. If you want to support my design work for Free and Open Source projects, I’m always looking for more sponsors. Or a “sub” as the kids call it these days.

这是设计文件，用来监督我，这样我就不能偷偷在离线状态下取得进展了！Twitch。我每周会花几次时间来完成它。在 Twitch 上关注我，以便在我直播时收到通知。我们将喝杯茶，放点音乐，一起度过这个冬天。如果你想支持我为自由和开源项目所做的设计工作，我一直在寻找更多的赞助商。或者像现在的年轻人所说的那样，进行一次“订阅”。