Crayon Emoji

Objects

A wax-based drawing stick shown at a slight angle, usually colored red with a pointed tip. The design mimics the classic primary-colored crayons found in school supply kits.

Usage Context

Used to talk about childhood, art projects, drawing, or simple creative tasks. It is frequently sent when referencing coloring books or children's schoolwork. It pairs well with other artistic tools like ✏️ or 🎨 to signal a creative mood.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2016, the crayon was introduced as part of a push to include more common stationery and art supplies in the emoji library to match the growing need for icons representing everyday school and office items.

Details

Glyph

🖍

Unicode

U+1F58D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f58d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD8D;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory writing

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository