Adding Color Emojis to WPF Projects

While working on a college project in WPF, I needed a way to display emojis to make the UI more intuitive. To my surprise, the default text renderer in WPF only supports black-and-white emojis, which didn’t exactly fit the mood I was going for.

After digging around, I found a great solution: Emoji.Wpf. It’s a drop-in replacement for standard text-based controls that adds full-color emoji rendering with minimal setup.

It integrates seamlessly—just replace your text control with its EmojiTextBlock (or equivalent), and suddenly your interface comes alive with proper emoji support.

A small but satisfying upgrade that makes a big difference in how data is visually conveyed.