How to display multi character unicode emojis in Overleaf LaTex?

Question

So apparently Overleaf now can render emojis using packages of Noto Color Emojis , where you can use {\NotoEmoji \symbol{"1F343} \symbol{"1F338} } to input an emoji with corresponding unicodes.

My question is how to input complex emojis that are composed of multiple emojis? For example, this one , the unicode is U+1F469 U+200D U+1F469 U+200D U+1F466 U+200D U+1F466 .

I've tried combinations like

\symbol{"1F469200d1f469200d...1f466} \symbol{"1F469 200d 1f469 200d...1f466} \symbol{"1F469} \symbol{"200d}...\symbol{"1f466}}

But none of them works.

Answer 1

You don't need to concatenate them. Here's the solution that I tried in Overleaf and it worked fine.

{\Large 
\NotoEmoji

% family emoji
\symbol{"1F468}\symbol{"200D}\symbol{"1F469}\symbol{"200D}\symbol{"1F467}\symbol{"200D}\symbol{"1F466}
}

Expected Output

Family: Man, Woman, Girl, Boy ,

You can use the same trick for Emoji Skin Tone Modifiers in Overleaf where the modifier comes right after the emoji Unicode.

{\Large 
\NotoEmoji

% Waving Hand emoji
\symbol{"1F44B}%

% Waving Hand: Light Skin Tone 
\symbol{"1F44B}\symbol{"1F3FB}
} 

Expected Output

Here's the Overleaf Project page about Displaying Color Emojis in Latex that you can check out.

Updated 2020-11-28: Adding emoji as an image in Latex

Since you mentioned adding emojis as images, I'm also including my solution for that.

\usepackage{tcolorbox}

% change font size here
\includegraphics[height=12]{family-man-woman-girl-boy.png}

The image can be downloaded from EmojiPedia .