Grayscale Emoji using CSS

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Image: Grayscale Emoji using CSS GIF

If for whatever reason you wanted to use less colourful emojis you can use this pure CSS snippet to convert the emojis to greyscale version.

If you are having trouble with the pen, try the archived copy on GitHub

Black and White Emoji Snippet

See the Pen dwfssdfsdfsdfsdf by Saijo George (@SaijoGeorge) on CodePen.

Posted by:Hima Vincent

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