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You're in for a rough ride.

You would have hated ancient Egypt.

At least it was monochrome... but not always https://warboar.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/color/

Good analogy would be "You'd hate arabic sprinkled with colorful egyptian hieroglyphs" - the answer is, probably I would not like it - it would lack aesthetics.

At least on Firefox you can remove the color emoji font from the installation and you're left with BW symbols.

Now that it's in Unicode, will it ever be over?

Edit: Well, OK, maybe the _hype_ will blow over. Not that I knew there were one. I'm just upset that too many things are accepted into the character set.

> Fonts should be strictly limited to monochrome.

Emoji can be monochrome, and are specified in a way which expressly supports that.