The artist palette is your shortcut to saying “creative brain online.” On Apple/iOS, it’s a warm wooden oval with a thumb hole on the left and five glossy paint dollops—red, orange, yellow, green, blue—arranged around the edge, shown at a slight tilt with soft shading and no paintbrush in sight. It screams studio vibes, whether you’re channeling Renaissance masters or Bob Ross whispering about happy little accidents. People drop it when they’re headed to art class, opening Procreate on the iPad, or showing off a color-graded edit they spent way too long perfecting.
It’s also a sly stand-in for makeup palettes and nail art—“blend like a masterpiece” energy—plus the occasional palette/palate pun in foodie posts. Expect it in captions like “feeling artsy,” “design WIP,” or ironically after a DIY that went Picasso-in-a-storm. On TikTok and Twitter, it can be flirty or dramatic—“you’re a work of art” or “painting the town chaotic”—and pairs well with the I like ya Picasso meme. From museum selfies to Etsy craft nights, this emoji is the internet’s colorful stamp for imagination, experimentation, and a little glorious mess.
Definition
A traditional artist palette that is used to hold paint for a painter during the act of painting an image. An artist palette is held in the hand with one hand while the paint brush is held in the other. In addition to holding and providing quick access to paint, an artist palette provides an excellent surface for the painter to mix different color paints to create the desired color - particularly thick paints that stick and won't run. A symbol for art in general. Found frequently in software programs as an icon that identifies where to select or change a color. A color pallet.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
A brown circular painter's palette with an assortment of colors around the side and a hole to put your thumb through. iEmoji old name: Artist's Palette.
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Entertainment Symbols
Names & Annotations
ARTIST PALETTE Old name: ART = art
Symbol Information
U+1F3A8 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-804
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#62 'Art' アート 「aato」 U+E67B SJIS-F8DC JIS-783B
KDDI
#309 アート 「aato」 U+E59C SJIS-F7B9 JIS-783B
Softbank
#263 #old425 パレット 「paretsuto」 U+E502 SJIS-FBA2
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🎨
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🎨
Decimal HTML Entity
🎨
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🎨
Hex Code Point(s)
1f3a8
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F3A8
Decimal Code Point(s)
127912
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x8E 0xA8
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 8E A8
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 216 250
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83C 0xDFA8
UTF-16 Hex
d83cdfa8
UTF-16 Dec
55356 57256
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F3A8
UTF-32 Hex
01F3A8
UTF-32 Dec
127912
Python Src
u"\U0001F3A8"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x8e\xa8"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83C\uDFA8"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
