emoji4 Faith

There is an emoji for broccoli 🥦, for a flamingo 🦩, even for a jigsaw piece 🧩. Over 3,500 of them in all. Yet to say “off to Mass”, “praying for you” or “happy Easter”, we make do with ⛪, 🙏 and a bunny 🐇. Nothing against the bunny, but it’s not quite the point.

emoji4.faith starts from a simple idea: if spiritual life matters to millions of people, it deserves a few pixels. We draw, we suggest, we share, and we build up a pool of Christian emojis that standards bodies may one day draw from.

Your turn. Seasoned designer 🎨, Sunday doodler ✏️ or simply someone with a bright idea 💡 (or an inspired one 😇): pick a theme below and send in your design. Missing a theme? Let us know.

The technical bit: SVG is preferred, because it stays crisp from an old flip phone to the latest smartphone. PNG is accepted too. Either way, test your drawing at 18 × 18 pixels, the size of a grain of rice 🍚: if it is still recognisable, you’re there.

The licence bit: your designs are shared under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. Anyone may use and adapt them, even commercially, as long as they credit you and share alike. You give, it travels, and your name stays on it.