# Why are the old emojis blurry? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [December 30, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471 "2019-12-30T17:37:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471/1 "2019-12-30T17:37:52Z")
šŸ˜€ šŸ˜Š :megaman: :megaman_x: Some of the old smilies are blurry, but others arenā€™t. Letā€™s figure out what is going on here šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471/2 "2019-12-30T17:40:42Z")
Found it! The forum software resizes all emojis to be 20 pixels tall. All of the newer images are downsampled to this size, so thatā€™s not a problem. All of the old emojis were natively created at 18x18 and other varying sizes. If I re-generate those images to be 20x20 with the appropriate pixels of padding to make up for the white space, I think that should solve this blurriness problem. Right now about 60% of those have been converted over: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/2X/d/d25137825df40c2affdbc1f704cbeb6d2bc82860.png) ---
**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471/3 "2019-12-31T00:43:09Z")
Sounds familiarā€¦ > [@What about the classic smileys?](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-about-the-classic-smileys/638552): > > The old smileys which this site has had forever are starting to really show their age. They were designed when 72dpi displays were all the rage wink blush anger unibrow :trout: Today, they are all blurry. What should we do? I lean towards hiding them and creating a special page on the site where we memorialize these smileys as something core to this siteā€™s history. slight_smile ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471/4 "2019-12-31T01:51:31Z")
Thanks for the thorough investigation! Glad theyā€™re back to looking great. :love_heart: ---
**Author:** ![prg9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@prg9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prg9)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471/5 "2020-01-01T15:26:46Z")
Cool. Wasnā€™t there a big thumb smiley (or am I misremembering (thumb2 maybe))? I tried finding the old forum to try and find it - how long ago did that disappear I thought it was still around somewhere? ---
**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471/6 "2020-01-01T18:05:14Z")
Ooh thumb2 was a good one. So was hoser (it I may say so myself). :mountie: ---
**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471/7 "2020-01-01T20:21:41Z")
Those will be coming back really soon! They were oddly sized and my knowledge of Photoshop Actions is too limited to automate those. There about 60-ish more smileys that will need to be brought back, and they currently live in a _todo_ folder šŸ“ šŸ„³ ---
**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-are-the-old-emojis-blurry/641471/8 "2020-01-01T20:32:45Z")
:thumb2: