Fairfield County, Ohio, USA | You've discovered one way to reference emoji, just like the emoji that one might encounter in text messages and similar. Smart devices tend to make emoji access very convenient; desktop applications, not so much.
Emoji are technically Unicode characters, so you aren't strictly referencing emoji; you're technically using a keystroke command that tells the app to change the immediately prior text to to the Unicode code point that it refers to.
Here's a handy link to 1F6B4, which is one of the examples in your provided image: https://unicodeplus.com/U+1F6B4
You could also use 1F404 for "cow": https://unicodeplus.com/U+1F404
Whether they're printed in color or monochrome depends on a *lot* of variables, and I'm not familiar enough with the edge cases surrounding that to provide advice. Suffice to say, emoji will often be printed in monochrome (unless explicitly colored in some way) even when on a color document. Your mileage may vary.
Sidebar: it (mildly) annoys me that this forum attempts to strip out emoji and all manner of other "special" characters. I'm not one of the "kids" who talk in only emoji, but I do use them here and there to better convey my intent behind a message. I know a lot of other farmers in my area do as well. If the admins of this site happen to read this message and are interested in assistance with improving the forum in this way or any other, as my off-farm job I'm an experienced sysadmin and developer, so have the skills, and would be happy to contribute. |
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