📝 Memo

A white piece of paper with text written on it by a yellow pencil, positioned over the sheet, tip down, at a 45° angle. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing, including signing (in sports).

WhatsApp and Facebook’s designs depict an old-fashioned office memorandum on pink paper. Apple’s suggests an informal note with the easter egg of handwritten text from its 1997–2002 Crazy Ones/Think Different ad campaign: Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes…

Not to be confused with 📄 Page Facing Up or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Memo was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.