Surprisingly, this happens. I recently started to use a lot of emojis, including ones like these, to name calendar events - because I use a watch face on my smartwatch that renders the next 12 hours worth of events on the clock face, and given the small space, many of the events can fit three or four letters of description. Emojis work as great workaround, because I can encode things like "takeoff, gate A11" in 4 visual characters, or "doctor's visit" in one.
(I prefix the event titles with emojis rather than replace the longer form completely, because some of those events are shared, and sometimes I forget what an emoji stands for anyway...)
Now, this is perhaps an unique use case, but I found myself doing this in other scenarios too, like task planners - the common thread is, "not enough space to fit full label".
Surprisingly, this happens. I recently started to use a lot of emojis, including ones like these, to name calendar events - because I use a watch face on my smartwatch that renders the next 12 hours worth of events on the clock face, and given the small space, many of the events can fit three or four letters of description. Emojis work as great workaround, because I can encode things like "takeoff, gate A11" in 4 visual characters, or "doctor's visit" in one.
(I prefix the event titles with emojis rather than replace the longer form completely, because some of those events are shared, and sometimes I forget what an emoji stands for anyway...)
Now, this is perhaps an unique use case, but I found myself doing this in other scenarios too, like task planners - the common thread is, "not enough space to fit full label".