Emojis in browsers displayed in black and white. [SOLVED]

[kishoreuk2008]

emojis not working properly in Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon.
Most of the emojis are in black and white. It gets irritating when some sites have black backgrounds. You can even tell the difference between the emojis.

[Moem]

Try installing an emoji font. Such as this one:

See if that does the job!

[kishoreuk2008]

I fixed it - I had to follow these instructions from 2016 I had to create ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/01-emoji.conf with the following text:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
The bit in the original instructions about installing Noto font was unnecessary since it's installed as part of 18.04 by default.

Then run:

fc-cache -f -v
On the next restart, Chrome has color emoji.