How to Change the Colour of Your Emojis on Android

These days, emojis are an important part of digital communication. They allow us to describe feelings and give our messages a splash of colour. Many emojis, especially those depicting people, have multiple colour variations representing different skin tones. This allows you to customize your emoji to be more closely similar to your appearance or the person you are communicating with. In this article, we’ll review how to alter the hue and skin tone of your Android device’s emojis.

How to Alter the Colour of Emojis?

First, it’s crucial to remember that not every emoji has skin tone or colour variants. It mostly consists of the multicoloured “people” emoji, which shows human figures and parts like hands and fingers, along with a few extra smileys and expressions.

You can easily check whether an emoji allows colour changes by looking for a little grey arrow on your keyboard at the bottom right of the emoji icon. Emojis with many colour options will have that triangle marking visible.

Typical emoji that accommodate differences in skin tone include:

How to Change the Emoji’s Colour on a Gboard Keyboard?

A recent upgrade to Gboard, Google’s authorized Android keyboard app, makes altering the colour of emojis incredibly simple. Should Gboard not come pre-installed on your device, you can obtain it at no cost by visiting the Google App Store. Use it as follows to create your emoji:

1. Launch any application, such as your text messaging app, that shows the Gboard keyboard on the display.
2. To access the emoji panel, tap the button with an emoji opposite the keyboard.
3. Choose an emoji with the little grey triangles in the corner that colour you wish to alter.
4. Press and hold the emoji. After a moment, a pop-up panel showing the many tone options for that emoji will reveal itself. 
5. To use a certain colour variation, just tap it. The chosen hue will suddenly replace the keyboard’s default yellow emoji.
6. Tap on the emoji to add it to your text as usual. Your selected skin tones will remain intact.

Note: Long-press a character and choose a new skin tone from the menu to alter the colour once later. Once more, your modified selection will spread to every match emoji.

The nice thing is that Gboard will immediately apply your desired skin tone to all other compatible emojis once you’ve chosen one. thereby saving you the trouble of having to do it again for each.

How do you change the emoji colour on the Samsung keyboard?

1. If your phone is a Samsung Galaxy, it uses the Samsung Keyboard by default instead of Gboard.
2. But worry not—altering the colour of an emoji is likewise simple
3. Navigate to the emoji area of any app that uses Samsung Keyboard.
   Select a symbol.
   When the ideal skin tone appears above the emoji, tap and hold it to choose it.

Note: As on Gboard, your chosen colour will be applied to that particular emoji and automatically extend to other matching emoji.

How to Change the Emoji’s Color in SwiftKey and Related Keyboard Apps?

Additionally, the majority of popular third-party Android keyboards follow a very similar method for changing emoji colours:

1. Select your preferred skin tone from the vertical list that shows over an emoji in SwiftKey, and long-press the chosen emoji.
2. To cycle between the colour selections in Fleksy, tap and hold an emoji and then swipe up or down on the emoji itself.
3. Long-press an emoji in Chrooma to choose a shade from the pop-up the surfaces.

Emojis have always been entertaining, but they become much more effective at expressing your feelings when you personalize them. Here’s how to alter the colour of your Android phone’s emojis. Please use the comments box below to share any questions or ideas.