How to use color emoji font (ttf) instead of png files?

[ianyepan]

How to use color emoji font (ttf) instead of png files?

[mch]

Have you tried setting emojify-emoji-style to '(unicode) and emojify-display-style to 'unicode? Here's the relevant settings from my config:

(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(emojify-display-style 'unicode)
 '(emojify-emoji-styles '(unicode)))

This is on a linux system using Noto Color Emoji:

[ianyepan]

This is the perfect solution! Thank you very much, Matt! @mch

For the people looking for an answer, this is the complete snippet I'm using:

(use-package emojify
  :config
  (when (member "Segoe UI Emoji" (font-family-list))
    (set-fontset-font
     t 'symbol (font-spec :family "Segoe UI Emoji") nil 'prepend))
  (setq emojify-display-style 'unicode)
  (setq emojify-emoji-styles '(unicode))
  (global-set-key (kbd "C-c .") #'emojify-insert-emoji))

And, voila!