max / shop

Say that shop declines emoji, rather than lacking them Max's call, 2026-08-09. Nothing to build: an emoji already resolves to a font, fails to rasterize as an alpha mask, and leaves an empty cell of the right width, so the decision was already the behaviour. Recorded next to the ligature decision because it is the same kind of thing — something shop chooses not to do — and because the width is the part that matters: an emoji still takes the columns it is owed, so text around one stays put and a line of somebody else's output reads as it was written. Drawing them would mean a colour atlas, glyphs that carry their own colour instead of taking the cell's, and bitmap strikes at a size that is never the cell's.