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🎨Artist Palette Emoji
The artist palette emoji 🎨 carries the codepoint U+1F3A8 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Activities → Arts & Crafts.
What 🎨 artist palette means
A small mixed set covering making things. 🎨 stands for creative work generally, 🖼️ for finished art, 🎭 for drama in the gossip sense as much as theatre. The crafting half — 🧵, 🧶, 🪡, 🪢 — has an odd second life: 🧵 is the standard marker for a multi-post thread on social platforms, which has nothing to do with sewing.
Unicode tags this one art, artist and artsy and files it under Activities → Arts & Crafts.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F3A8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🎨 | |
| HTML decimal | 🎨 | |
| CSS | \1F3A8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F3A8} | |
| Python | \U0001F3A8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83C\uDFA8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f3a8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F3A8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F3A8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%8E%A8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 8E A8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83C DFA8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+OqA== | |
| Decimal | 127912 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🎨
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “artist palette”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “art”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f3a8and Enter. - HTML — paste
🎨.
How 🎨 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🎨Apple
- 🎨Segoe
- 🎨Noto
- 🎨System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🎨 artist palette emoji mean?+
🎨 is the artist palette emoji, tagged art, artist and artsy. A small mixed set covering making things. 🎨 stands for creative work generally, 🖼️ for finished art, 🎭 for drama in the gossip sense as much as theatre. The crafting half — 🧵, 🧶, 🪡, 🪢 — has an odd second life: 🧵 is the standard marker for a multi-post thread on social platforms, which has nothing to do with sewing.
What is the Unicode code for 🎨?+
artist palette is U+1F3A8. In HTML that is 🎨, in CSS \1F3A8, and in JavaScript \u{1F3A8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🎨 emoji added?+
artist palette got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Arts & Crafts in Activities.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🎨 artist palette.