A stubby wax crayon worn down to its point, the least precise writing or drawing tool the emoji keyboard offers. It calls up coloring books and kindergarten art class directly, and gets typed sideways for anything explained so simply it might as well be written in crayon.
What 🖍️ means
A right-bottom facing red crayon with a red wrapper and a pointy end having a black ring on either side. The 🖍️ Crayon emoji symbolizes the joy of coloring, making art, adding colors to mundanity, another way of expressing oneself, and showcasing creativity.
How and when to use it
- The primary function of a crayon is coloring and adding color to anything. Similarly, you can use 🖍️ in any context that highlights colors and coloring. For example, "The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you 🖍️" or "There's no beauty without color 🖍️".
- While putting up inspiring captions or any other quotes related to crayons for your posts/reposts, 🖍️ is mandatory. For instance, "Broken crayons still color 🖍️".
- You could also use 🖍️ in cute, mushy, and romantic contexts - "You are my blue crayon, the one I never get enough of and the one I use to color my sky 🖍️" (although it's a red crayon, it works for all colors).
- If you're sharing crayon artwork, 🖍️ ought to be in the caption or any other context.
- 🖍️ refers to all variations of a crayon; color pencils, wax crayons, pastels, etc. Speaking of pastels, this emoji may be used in reference to any pastel color too.
Other Names
- 🖍️ Red Crayon
- 🖍️ Color Pencil
- 🖍️ Color Crayon
- 🖍️ Pastel
- 🖍️ Wax Crayon
- 🖍️ Lower Left Crayon
- 🖍️ Color
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › writing
- Codepoints
U+1F58D U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:crayon:GitHub- Keywords
- crayon
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🖍️ Crayon or 🇸🇱 Flag: Sierra Leone?
Runs with a crowd
🖍️ keeps company in school emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.