Back in June we launched the Iconic font: A dot-matrix, Emoji-inspired rebus generator. Around the same time, Apple announced some exciting changes for their Messages app. Our course was clear. We set to work building iA Emoji. iA Emoji is a simple and fun text-to-emoji-translator that allows you to send decodable picture-only messages to your friends. It translates the 2000 most common English words into pictures, and allows the recipient of those messages to translate it back, emoji per emoji, or all at once. Every message becomes its own micro-puzzle you can tap and pop to solve. The interplay between text ...