Open-source emoji sets

Free emoji sets you can actually ship.

A typed emoji is drawn by each visitor's own device, so it looks different everywhere. An emoji set fixes the look, and the question is always the licence. These are the full sets whose makers publish them for anyone to reuse, commercial work included. Each licence below was read from the maker's own LICENSE file, and each set is pinned to one release, so what you see is what you get.

Same emoji, 17 sets

Click a set's name for every emoji it draws, or a tile to open that emoji in its set.

Emoji	Emoji One (2015)	Noto Emoji 2017 (Blob)
😀grinning face
😂face with tears of joy
😍smiling face with heart-eyes
🤔thinking face	not drawn	not drawn
😭loudly crying face
👍thumbs up
🙏folded hands
❤️red heart
🔥fire
🎉party popper
🐱cat face
🦊fox	not drawn	not drawn
🍕pizza
☕hot beverage
🚀rocket
🌈rainbow
💡light bulb
✅check mark button

The first column is the typed emoji, drawn by your own device's font, for comparison.

What each licence asks

Set	Maker	Style	Emoji	Licence	What it asks of you
Fluent Emoji Flat	Microsoft	Flat colour, SVG	1,595	MIT	Keep the copyright and licence notice with copies of the files.
Fluent Emoji Color	Microsoft	Gradient colour, SVG	1,595	MIT	Keep the copyright and licence notice with copies of the files.
Fluent Emoji 3D	Microsoft	3D render, PNG	1,595	MIT	Keep the copyright and licence notice with copies of the files.
Fluent Emoji High Contrast	Microsoft	Monochrome, SVG	1,595	MIT	Keep the copyright and licence notice with copies of the files.
Twemoji	Twitter, Inc. and other contributors (maintained by jdecked)	Flat colour, SVG	1,900	CC BY 4.0	Credit the maker and link the licence wherever the emoji appear.
OpenMoji Color	OpenMoji, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd	Outlined colour, SVG	1,914	CC BY-SA 4.0	Credit the maker and link the licence; emoji you modify must be shared under the same licence.
OpenMoji Black	OpenMoji, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd	Outline, SVG	1,914	CC BY-SA 4.0	Credit the maker and link the licence; emoji you modify must be shared under the same licence.
Noto Emoji	Google	Flat colour, SVG	1,923	Apache 2.0	Keep the licence and copyright notice with copies of the files, and say if you changed them.
Blobmoji	C1710 and contributors, from Google’s original Blob emoji	Blob characters, SVG	1,866	Apache 2.0	Keep the licence and copyright notice with copies of the files, and say if you changed them.
EmojiOne 2	Emoji One (artwork now owned by JoyPixels Inc.)	Flat colour, SVG	1,369	CC BY 4.0	Credit the maker and link the licence wherever the emoji appear.
EmojiOne 2 Monotone	Emoji One (artwork now owned by JoyPixels Inc.)	Monochrome, SVG	1,365	CC BY 4.0	Credit the maker and link the licence wherever the emoji appear.
EmojiTwo	EmojiTwo contributors, from the EmojiOne 2 artwork	Flat colour, SVG	1,392	CC BY 4.0	Credit the maker and link the licence wherever the emoji appear.
EmojiTwo Monotone	EmojiTwo contributors, from the EmojiOne 2 artwork	Monochrome, SVG	1,366	CC BY 4.0	Credit the maker and link the licence wherever the emoji appear.
Emoji One (2015)	Emoji One (now JoyPixels Inc.)	Flat colour, SVG	1,168	CC BY-SA 4.0	Credit the maker and link the licence; emoji you modify must be shared under the same licence.
Noto Emoji 2017 (Blob)	Google	Blob characters, SVG	1,448	Apache 2.0	Keep the licence and copyright notice with copies of the files, and say if you changed them.
Blobmoji2	David Berdik and contributors, from Google’s Blob emoji	Blob characters, SVG	1,914	Apache 2.0	Keep the licence and copyright notice with copies of the files, and say if you changed them.
SerenityOS Emoji	The SerenityOS developers	Pixel art, PNG	1,757	BSD 2-Clause	Keep the copyright notice and licence with copies of the files.

Counts are emoji from the 1,923 in Unicode 18.0, one per emoji, skin-tone variants not counted. Every set is free for commercial use. Fluent draws no country flags and stops at an earlier Unicode release, which is most of its gap. This is a plain reading of each licence, not legal advice; the licence links go to the text itself.

What is not here, and why

Apple, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook emoji. Each is its maker's proprietary artwork. Sites that show them do so under their own arrangements; they are not published for reuse, so they are not ours to offer.
Google's Emoji Kitchen mashups. The combined stickers are Google's images, served from Google's servers, with no open licence published for them. Sites that offer them as downloads are handing out files they were never licensed.
Noto's new 3D emoji. The repository ships them, but unlike the 2D SVGs the PNGs carry no licence file of their own. Until Google states one, they stay out.
Firefox Emoji. Openly licensed (CC BY 4.0), but archived since 2019 and named by description rather than code point, so it cannot be matched to Unicode reliably. Left out rather than half-matched.
Tossface. Toss ships it as a font only, stopping at Unicode 14, and its licence, in Korean, lets the original be redistributed only with Toss's copyright notice and the full licence text attached. An image pack would mean rendering the font ourselves and carrying that notice on every file, so it waits.

Using a set on the web

Use the image with the emoji's name as alt, sized to the text around it, and every visitor sees the same face. If you would rather keep typed emoji and only steer which system font draws them, set an emoji stack on the element:

.reaction {
  font-family: "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji",
               "Noto Color Emoji", sans-serif;
}

Each set's page has the copy-ready <img> tag, the file link and the credit line. Want drawings with no credit line at all? Our own holiday icon packs carry no conditions, and the hand-drawn reaction emoji only ask for credit as a courtesy.