Who founded Emojipedia, the online reference for emoji meanings and designs?

Jeremy Burge founded Emojipedia, the online reference for emoji meanings, histories, and platform designs.

Emojipedia launched in 2013 as a searchable guide to the symbols appearing on phones, websites, and messaging services. Its pages explain official Unicode names, code points, appearance changes, and differences between vendors.

Burge became a prominent commentator on emoji and served as an observer at Unicode Consortium meetings. Emojipedia is independent of the companies that draw many emoji images, so it can compare how a single Unicode character appears on Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and other systems.

A common mix-up is treating Emojipedia as the body that approves emoji. It is not. The Unicode Consortium manages the standardization process, while Emojipedia documents the resulting characters and their implementations for the public.