Emoji Color Picker

Emoji Color Picker is a small experiment that matches a color to the emoji with the closest average RGB value.

The hardest part of the project was not the picker UI itself, but generating the emoji color dataset. I built a separate script that rendered every pictorial emoji as a PNG using Apple's emoji font, ignored transparent pixels, and computed the average RGB value of the visible image.

That produced a JSON dataset mapping each emoji to a representative color. The picker app then simply compares a chosen color against that dataset and returns the closest match.

The color data lives in a separate repository: emoji-color-data.