I've upgraded from 17.10 to 18.04 and was hoping to have better emoji support. The results are that Chrome (66) is still using the old black and white emoji font, and Firefox (59) is managing to show some color emoji but not others. I took some advice to install the font EmojiOne but that didn't seem to help ?
Screenshots from the emoji demo page at http://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html :
Chrome:
Firefox:
Best Answer
On Ubuntu 18.04+ you can now simply install a single package:
fonts-noto-color-emoji. After that, restart Chrome and it will take effect. No need for creating a manual font configuration.This package is supposed to be installed on the regular Ubuntu 18.04+ desktop flavor (on a 'Recommended' level of dependency - check for yourself with
apt rdepends fonts-noto-color-emoji). Some other flavors like Kubuntu (KDE) don't have this by default and require you to install it manually.