color-selection.md

Defining primary color with ZWJ sequences

Emoji hearts come in many colors, but so do books. Let’s use either one like Fitzpatrick skin tone modifieres, but with mandatory Zero Width Joiner U+200D, e.g. green car: either 🚗‍💚 / 🚘‍💚 or 🚗‍📗 / 🚘‍📗.

Hearts

Color	Unicode	Sample
White	U+2661	♡️
Black	U+2665/1F5A4	♥️/🖤
Red	U+2764	❤️
Yellow	U+1F49B	💛
Green	U+1F49A	💚
Blue	U+1F499	💙
Purple	U+1F49C	💜
Orange	U+1F9E1	🧡
Pink	U+1F49F/D/8/3/7	💟/💝/💘/💓/💗
Broken	U+1F494	💔
Sparks	U+1F496	💖

Circles and Diamonds

Color	Unicode	Sample
White	U+26AA	⚪️
Black	U+26AB	⚫️
Red	U+1F534	🔴
Blue	U+1F535	🔵
Blue	U+1F537	🔷
Orange	U+1F536	🔶

Books

Color	Unicode	Sample
Red/Pink	U+1F4D5	📕
Green	U+1F4D7	📗
Blue	U+1F4D8	📘
Orange	U+1F4D9	📙
Yellow	U+1F4D2	📒
Monochrome	U+1F4D3	📓
Decorative	U+1F4D4	📔
Multiple	U+1F4DA	📚

Heraldic Color Patterns

“Tincture”

Color	Unicode	Sample	Hatching
Black	U+25A0	■	Solid
White (argent)	U+25A1	□	None, blank
Blue (azure)	U+25A4	▤	Horizontal stripes
Red (gules)	U+25A5	▥	Vertical stripes
Black (sable)	U+25A6	▦	Square pattern
Green (vert)	U+25A7	▧	Forward diagonals
Purple (purpure)	U+25A8	▨	Backward diagonals
Maroon (sanguine)	U+25A9	▩	Diamond pattern
Brown (tenné)	U+?	?	Vertical-forward crosshatch
Light Shade	U+2591	░
Medium Shade (or)	U+2592	▒	Dotted
Dark Shade	U+2593	▓