Activities · Emoji 0.6
🎨Artist Palette Emoji
Generally, the 🎨 emoji means “art” or “creative.” People use it to show they appreciate something artistic or to express their own creative side in a text.
The 🎨 emoji represents an artist’s palette.
- Unicode
- U+1F3A8
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :art:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎨 Artist Palette emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as painting emoji.
02 — Platforms
Artist Palette emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F3A8 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your artist palette looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Artist Palette emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :art:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the artist palette, code point U+1F3A8.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎨 Artist Palette emoji
No picker to hand? The artist palette can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Artist Palette emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Artist Palette emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around artist palette for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🎨, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🎨 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 🎨 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — Difference
🎨 vs 👩🎨 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Artist Palette
Code: U+1F3A8 · added 2010
Shortcode: :art:
Generally, the 🎨 emoji means “art” or “creative.”
Unicode name: Woman Artist
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F3A8 · added 2016
Shortcode: :female-artist:
Generally, it means someone is an artist or enjoys art.
12 — History
Where the 🎨 Artist Palette emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3A8 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🎨 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E67B, KDDI au E59C, SoftBank E502.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Artist Palette was approved as U+1F3A8 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎨 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ