📝 Memo

A memorandum: a piece of paper written to used for communication in formal settings. Displayed as a piece of paper being written on with a pencil.

The Apple version of this emoji contains the following words:

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can…

This is an excerpt from “The Crazy Ones” text, used as part of Apple’s Think Different Advertising campaign of the late 1990s to early 2000s.

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