# Emoji support? 🤨

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [September 21, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052 "2023-09-21T09:45:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![gex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/gex/32/35639_2.png) [@gex](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/gex)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/1 "2023-09-21T09:45:30Z")

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it was a little bit of a surprise that in 2023 i cannot use the full utf-8 character set to name my layers and folders. while it might sound childish to use emojis in a professional grade software but it really does help to make some layers and/or folders stand out in a long list.

can you please allow us to use emojis?

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Gy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/peter_gy/32/9251_2.png) [@Peter\_Gy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_Gy)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/2 "2023-09-21T12:32:01Z")

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It is not childish at all – to be honest, we make very heavy use of emojis internally in all kinds of documents ourselves 🫢

It’s a difficult task though – as we go ahead with further developments, we plan to make item names available in more & more contexts, and in many of these emojis can be very difficult to handle. But this is something that we will consider, as we do understand the need very well 🙂

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**Author:** ![Bob3DPO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Bob3DPO](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bob3DPO)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/3 "2023-09-21T12:56:10Z")

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I think this is a great idea! My biggest use case would be to start the name with a distinctive emoji 🦀 and then shrink the panel of items so I just see the item type (e.g. body), the emoji, and the hide/unhide icon.

Oops 😬 that was another feature request. My bad 😞. But on my 12.9 inch iPad, there isn’t enough room to have both the items _and_ history panels open at the same time and do much design work.

A single emoji packs a lot of information into a small area.  
👍 💡, @gex ‼

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**Author:** ![NathanD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dec6dc/32.png) [@NathanD](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/NathanD)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/4 "2023-09-21T15:59:45Z")

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Imagine a parametric table of user defined values with an emoji instead of a parameter name…

🔵 = 45 mm  
🟡 = 🔵 \*2  
🟢 = 🔵 ^2 + 🟡

😬🫣

I don’t know much about coding, but what’s interesting is there’s a new coding language that uses emojis called Mojo 🔥

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Gy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/peter_gy/32/9251_2.png) [@Peter\_Gy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_Gy)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/5 "2023-09-21T16:24:22Z")

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Yes, the parameter table would be the first big challenge on this road, with many more to follow. The reaction of the dev team working on this was the :eye\_twitch: custom emoji when this came up on the internal Slack 🙂

So I’m not saying never, but we’ll need to think a lot about whether it’s worth the investment…

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**Author:** ![NathanD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/dec6dc/32.png) [@NathanD](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/NathanD)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/6 "2023-09-21T16:55:55Z")

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Yeah I can imagine. It’s just a wild thought.

I’ll take a parametric table with or without emojis as soon as it’s developed though. 👍🏻

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**Author:** ![Jirka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jirka](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Jirka)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 8:31am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/7 "2023-09-22T08:31:45Z")

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Would a separate customizable icon not do the job without having to deal with all the consequences of having to deal with emoji’s everywhere?

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**Author:** ![Laci\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/laci_k/32/8196_2.png) [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/8 "2023-10-03T14:12:02Z")

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Just to jump in, you can use the built in emojies on mac and IPad anywhere in the app. Just start renaming, and globe + e / fn + e will open the list of emojies, so you can select from the list:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/3/a/3a779bebcee282652b80c7a8ff64ca6d7751691d.jpeg)

On Windows, it’s the windows key + .

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**Author:** ![Bob3DPO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Bob3DPO](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bob3DPO)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/9 "2023-10-03T14:38:43Z")

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Thanks Laci\_K!  
Is there a keyboard shortcut to initiate Rename?

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**Author:** ![Laci\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/laci_k/32/8196_2.png) [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/10 "2023-10-03T14:39:48Z")

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No, there is no shortcut for that unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![Bob3DPO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@Bob3DPO](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Bob3DPO)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/11 "2023-10-03T17:32:16Z")

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Thanks, Laci\_K. I had looked in the manual and poked around, but always good to have a definitive answer, I appreciate it.

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**Author:** ![gex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/gex/32/35639_2.png) [@gex](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/gex)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/12 "2023-10-03T23:04:16Z")

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this is strange, i couldn’t add any emojis to the layer/folder names when i created this topic. i use the ctrl-cmd-space shortcut (haven’t got used to the new one yet) and i tried it in stable and beta as well.

now it works, can it be a new Shapr3D version or the switch to Sonoma?

anyway, i marked it as a solution because this is what i was looking for. thank you!

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**Author:** ![Laci\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/laci_k/32/8196_2.png) [@Laci\_K](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Laci_K)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 8:31am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/emoji-support/28052/13 "2023-10-04T08:31:05Z")

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We didn’t change anything related as far as I’m aware, I’m still on Ventura, and it also works on Windows.