emojis not colored

[Colin Baxter 😺]

Hello,

Emojis are a mystery to be and I'm sure I am missing something in the
case of emacs-29 and its ability to use emojis, but I have a clue as to
what!

If I open emacs-29 by doing "emacs -Q <RET>" and use "M-x emoji-list
<RET>" then I see emojis but only as black-and-white. I do not see
colored emojis at all. I have used

(set-fontset-font t 'emoji
                    '("Noto Color Emoji" . "iso10646-1") nil 'prepend)

and variations but to no avail.

I suspect that although I have ~/.fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf I am missing
the actual colored "items". I do not know what these "items" are - emacs
emojify uses png files - perhaps I need these too for the new emacs
emoji ability. My question is therefore how I generate - or get -
colored emojis from NotoColorEmoji.ttf?

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.