🖌️

Paintbrush Emoji 🖌️

A wide, splayed brush built for laying down paint rather than drawing a single line, the emoji's stand-in for the whole idea of painting. It covers an actual canvas or mural and gets borrowed loosely for any creative project that's still being shaped from scratch.

What 🖌️ means

A blue handled brush with a thick yellowish brush at the lower end, fixed with a wide metal ring. The 🖌️ Paintbrush emoji represents painting and art. However, it could also signify colors and the metaphorical ways of painting a picture.

How and when to use it

If you're posting a picture, the caption of which goes along the lines of "painting a picture", please welcome 🖌️ into the picture. For example, "I may not have discovered all my colors yet. But here I am, on my way, painting a bigger picture of me 🖌️".
If you catch someone generalizing something, 🖌️ is your weapon! - "Stop painting everything with the same brush, will you?! 🖌️ Not all men are trash and not all women are goddesses. Please, stop".
A paintbrush is an artist's tool and a mode of self-expression. If you're sharing posts or reposts with captions that resonate with the same, then use 🖌️ - "I like painting on almost everything, including my face 🖌️".
Speaking of painting on faces, you can use 🖌️ even in contexts of the same; in plain artistic frameworks and those metaphorical post captions. Like, "You may be just a spectacular artist to the rest of the world, but you always manage to paint a big smile onto my face 🖌️".
You could also use 🖌️ while asking someone to ignore something. Like, "Man, just brush all over it 🖌️. It ain't worth your time".

Other Names

🖌️ Painting Brush
🖌️ Artist's Brush
🖌️ Brush
🖌️ Lower Left Paintbrush
🖌️ Art Brush
🖌️ Artist
🖌️ Painter

The lowdown

Category: Objects › writing
Codepoints: U+1F58C U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :paintbrush: GitHub
Keywords: paintbrush, painting

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.