Guide to enable system-wide Emoji support on Ubuntu 🤩

Emoji-on-Ubuntu.md

1. Install Fonts

sudo apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji

2. Add Font Configuration

• Open ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/01-emoji.conf file in an editor.
• Copy-paste the lines below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

3. Flush Font Cache

fc-cache -f -v

4. Restart the programs (e.g. web browsers)

5. Check

• Visit this link 🧐 to check the emoji list.

6. That's it! 🤗

If you use Librewolf browser on Ubuntu, it may cause problems with the html font rendering:

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/1882

Thank you @pierrebrd That looks like a more seamless implementation. Not sure why I didnt get notified of your comment months ago. Would have saved me lot of time lol.

Works in Fedora as well. Install via sudo dnf install google-noto-emoji-fonts