Recently when writing another one of my TIL entries, I got curious whether the 📝 emoji on mac contains actual text or is it just some scribbles.

Screenshot of memo emoji taken on a Mac OS device showing the text written in it
Screenshot of memo emoji taken on a Mac OS device showing the text written in it

Turns out, it does contain actual text, and that too from the famous poem "Here's to the crazy ones". I first heard that poem at the end of the Jobs movie.

Now when I was researching for this article, I found out that it was originally part of Apple's "Think Different" ad campaign back in the day (source: Basic Apple Guy). And it turns out the same poem shows up in multiple emojis and at many other places throughout the whole system.

While I am not generally a fan of Apple and its recent design decisions of the past few years, I don't expect this level of nice design from any other major tech company.

:chefs_kiss: (I wish unicode had this emoji)