First started in 2021, Interop is a joint project by the makers of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari to fix which new web features which are still missing across these web browsers. It’s also sanctioned by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization behind most of today’s web standards, like, how HTML should be structured, or what web browsers should or should not do when giving user data to websites.

Interop 2024 will be the fourth time when web browser makers agree on things which should be improved over time. With my former experience over Webcompat.com, I decided to propose them to investigate the ability for web developers to include custom emoji fonts.

Why does that matter? Because web bowsers apparently don’t handle custom emoji fonts well, like this and this.

Issues like these could introduce problems for web designers and developers to introduce custom emoji fonts, either for providing support for older devices (like the EmojiCompat library for Android), branding (like in Facebook, Toss Face, Twemoji, and WhatsApp), and theming purposes.

If you are a designer or developer who are also concerned with these issues, check out my proposal over GitHub to add some comments for browser makers to consider. Again this is a proposal, so the more important it is for devs, the more likely for this to be included in Interop 2024.