Colorful Heart Emojis to Indicate Task Completion Levels
Developed in cooperation with ChatGPT
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Are all the following heart emojis standard emojis, or is any of them non-standard? I’m on
miniPad1right now, and picked them from the SwiftKey keyboard’s emojis menu.🖤🤎🤍🩶💛🧡💚🩵💙💜🩷❤️💖❤️🔥💔❤️🩹
All of the heart emojis you listed are standard emojis, meaning they are officially part of the Unicode Standard and should be supported across most devices and platforms. However, some of them were added more recently than others, which may affect their compatibility with older systems.
Here’s a breakdown of their Unicode versions:
1. 🖤 (Black Heart) – Unicode 9.0 (2016)
2. 🤎 (Brown Heart) – Unicode 12.0 (2019)
3. 🤍 (White Heart) – Unicode 12.0 (2019)
4. 🩶 (Grey Heart) – Unicode 15.0 (2022)
5. 💛 (Yellow Heart) – Unicode 6.0 (2010)
6. 🧡 (Orange Heart) – Unicode 10.0 (2017)
7. 💚 (Green Heart) – Unicode 6.0 (2010)
8. 🩵 (Light Blue Heart) – Unicode 15.0 (2022)
9. 💙 (Blue Heart) – Unicode 6.0 (2010)
10. 💜 (Purple Heart) – Unicode 6.0 (2010)
11. 🩷 (Pink Heart) – Unicode 15.0 (2022)
12. ❤️ (Red Heart) – Unicode 1.1 (1993, originally ❤, color version standardized later)
13. 💖 (Sparkling Heart) – Unicode 6.0 (2010)
14. ❤️🔥 (Heart on Fire) – Unicode 13.1 (2020)
15. 💔 (Broken Heart) – Unicode 6.0 (2010)
16. ❤️🩹 (Mending Heart) – Unicode 13.1 (2020)
The most recent heart emojis are:
• 🩶 Grey Heart (2022)
• 🩵 Light Blue Heart (2022)
• 🩷 Pink Heart (2022)
These may not display correctly on very old devices or apps that haven’t updated their emoji support.2
Since you’re using miniPad, you should be fine as long as you’re on iPadOS 16 or later, which supports all these emojis. However, if you send them to someone on an older system, the newer ones (like 🩶, 🩵, 🩷) might not show up correctly.
Thank you for that great overview!
So if I intended to indicate the level of completion of a task via emojis, then those emojis 1 to 13, in the exact sequence I submitted here, might be a good fit to indicate that? 🤔
Emoji no. 1 (🖤, Black Heart) would equal to 0% completion, and emoji no. 13 (💖, Sparkling Heart) would equal to 100+% completion. The Green Heart 💚, placed smack in the middle of the sequence, could indicate a completion of 50%.
The final three emojis 14 to 16 might perhaps indicate some sorts of failures to complete a task, perhaps. 🤔 (Although the Black Heart, 🖤, equaling 0%, is likewise a good indication of failure.)
You’re onto something clever here. The sequence you chose — 🖤🤎🤍🩶💛🧡💚🩵💙💜🩷❤️💖 — forms a gradient of progress, which could visually represent the level of completion quite well.
Your proposed mapping:
• 🖤 (Black Heart, 0%) → No progress (task unstarted, or total failure)
• 🤎 (Brown Heart, ~10%) → Barely started
• 🤍 (White Heart, ~20%) → Minimal progress
• 🩶 (Grey Heart, ~30%) → Some effort, but still low progress
• 💛 (Yellow Heart, ~40%) → Near halfway, but not quite there
• 🧡 (Orange Heart, ~45%) → Approaching halfway
• 💚 (Green Heart, 50%) → Midway, exactly half done
• 🩵 (Light Blue Heart, ~60%) → Over halfway
• 💙 (Blue Heart, ~70%) → Good progress
• 💜 (Purple Heart, ~80%) → Almost there
• 🩷 (Pink Heart, ~90%) → Just about finished
• ❤️ (Red Heart, 100%) → Fully completed
• 💖 (Sparkling Heart, 100+%) → Overachievement (e.g., exceeding expectations)
Then, using the last three for failures makes a lot of sense:
• ❤️🔥 (Heart on Fire) → Burnout/failure due to overwork
• 💔 (Broken Heart) → Failure due to an external issue (interruption, bad luck, external factors)
• ❤️🩹 (Mending Heart) → Recovery from failure (a failed task that you’re trying to fix or redo)
This system would be intuitive, visually appealing, and easy to apply across different contexts. It also avoids numbers, making tracking feel more organic.
iPad mini
Specifically, 6 out of the 16 heart emojis may pose problems. The emojis 🩶 (Grey Heart), 🩵 (Light Blue Heart), 🩷 (Pink Heart), ❤️🔥 (Heart on Fire), and ❤️🩹 (Mending Heart) may not render properly on some platforms or older devices. On my iPad mini, all 16 emojis display correctly. However, on my Windows 10 notebook (as of March 2025), these five emojis appear as empty square boxes or as a sequence of two separate emojis instead of a single combined one. Additionally, the Red Heart emoji (❤️) sometimes displays as a white heart; to ensure a more consistent red heart display, consider using the Red Exclamation Heart (❣).