If imagined in Apple/iOS emoji-style concept art, Ligature Open Et Ornament would probably have appeared as a polished, calligraphic ampersand-like mark with open looping strokes, possibly rendered in black, dark gray, gold, or a glossy metallic style. However, there is no widely recognized official Apple emoji design for it, and Unicode did not elevate it into the standard colorful emoji set. Its historical relevance is mainly as a typographic Unicode-style ornament and a reminder that many proposed or discussed symbols were useful for text decoration but did not fit the broader emoji model of pictorial, emotionally expressive icons.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
