What is Google's multi-color emoji font in the Noto family called?

Google’s multi-color emoji font in the Noto family is called Noto Color Emoji.

It belongs to Google’s Noto font project, whose broad goal is to support writing systems and symbols across the world without the missing-glyph boxes sometimes nicknamed “tofu.” The emoji branch has both a color font and a monochrome companion called Noto Emoji.

Noto Color Emoji is a font, not an emoji keyboard or a separate Unicode encoding. It supplies colorful glyph artwork for Unicode emoji characters and sequences, while the underlying text remains Unicode. Its artwork can therefore appear differently from Apple Color Emoji, Segoe UI Emoji, or Mozilla’s Twemoji even when the same character is sent.

A common mix-up is treating Noto Color Emoji as the universal appearance of emoji. Unicode standardizes characters, names, properties, and sequences; it does not require every platform to draw them identically. Noto Color Emoji has nevertheless become especially recognizable through Google products and platforms such as Android and ChromeOS.