Transaction Science 4f54a8cae0 feat(symbols): people drawn in no one's skin, gender or age by default ...

Pictograms must be international in how they show gender, ethnicity and
age. Following Unicode's emoji model (UTS #51):

- Skin. Every person in Mulberry and OpenMoji is drawn in a generic,
  non-realistic colour -- UTS #51's own example, #FFCC22 (OpenMoji's
  lemon would melt into Mulberry's lemon hair, clothes and objects) --
  or in the skin tone the person chooses: one of the five modifiers
  U+1F3FB-U+1F3FF, in OpenMoji's colours (aac_core:🔣:SkinTone).
  The build writes skin as the CSS custom property --aac-skin (OpenMoji's
  skin shadow as --aac-skin-shade) over a neutral fill, so a renderer
  without the style still draws a person neutral, never black.
  - Mulberry: its authors' aac-skin-fill markers where present; for the
    rest, a reviewed decision per symbol in people.toml (a cake's icing
    and a computer case share the skin colour). The build stops on a
    missing or stale decision.
  - OpenMoji: its skin layers, checked element by element against its
    own toned variants.
  A visual audit of all 397 mapped symbols with the skin colour shown as
  magenta, and an adversarial second look, confirmed every call;
  people-review.md lists every symbol that draws a person and how.
- Gender and age. Where Mulberry drew a man's face or a child for a word
  that names neither (the feelings, Speak, eat, drink, doctor, teacher,
  police, hi...), OpenMoji's emoji face (no gender, age or skin) or
  Unicode's gender-neutral person is used instead; police wears a cap
  worn worldwide, not a British helmet.
- Hair keeps its colour whatever the tone.
- App: Settings > Symbols > People in pictures, and the same choice in
  setup; kept with the symbol set and applied on the app root.
- SPEC 4.3 (proposed): people in symbols.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

2026-09-30 08:35:11 -04:00

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