Merge pull request #169 from dougfelt/master
Update readme noting update to emoji design.
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[issue #36](https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/36). Currently we do
not build other color font formats.
+## Color emoji assets
+
+The assets provided in the repo are all those used to build the NotoColorEmoji
+font. Note however that NotoColorEmoji often uses the same assets to represent
+different character sequences-- notably, most gender-neutral characters or
+sequences are represented using assets named after one of the gendered
+sequences. This means that some sequences appear to be missing. Definitions of
+the aliasing used appear in the aliases.txt file.
+
+Also note that the images in the font might differ from the original assets. In
+particular the flag images in the font are PNG images to which transforms have
+been applied to standardize the size and generate the wave and border shadow. We
+do not have SVG versions that reflect these transforms.
+
+## B/W emoji font
+
+The black-and-white emoji font is not under active development. Its repertoire of
+emoji is now several years old, and the design does not reflect the current color
+emoji design. Currently we have no plans to update this font.
+
## License
Emoji fonts (under the fonts subdirectory) are under the
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## News
+* 2017-09-13: Emoji redesign released.
* 2015-12-09: Unicode 7 and 8 emoji image data (.png format) added.
* 2015-09-29: All Noto fonts now licensed under the SIL Open Font License.
