Clippy, the hero of Microsoft Office, is now an emoji.

Microsoft launched a collection of latest emoji to have a good time World Emoji Day (sure, that’s a factor, and it’s July 17), and whereas they’re all enjoyable, perhaps solely millennials will actually perceive Clippy’s significance.

In a Medium blog penned by the Microsoft design workforce’s Claire Anderson, the corporate teased the reimagined glyphs. The submit additionally provided up a little bit of background on the philosophy behind the brand new emoji.

From the weblog:

Even earlier than the pandemic obscured the traces between work and life, notions of professionalism had been evolving towards emotional honesty and playfulness. To guarantee our new designs mirrored this, design researcher Meghan Stockdale labored intently with us to rethink graphical expressions of professionalism.

The emoji proven off within the header of the weblog are a far departure from the emoji that presently exist in Windows 10. They exude playfulness, which is frankly not one thing Microsoft has been identified for all through its multi-decade historical past. They additionally appear to be they’ll match the upcoming Windows 11 replace, which is in itself a reimagined interpretation of the productivity-focused working system.

The Microsoft design workforce has been working to refresh its 1,888 emoji over the previous yr. They opted for three-dimensional appears to be like over two-dimensional ones and selected to animate a majority of them. I may even see the Skype affect within the heart-eyes emoji proven off in Microsoft’s preview video, in case you recall the times of the intensely animated emoji accessible throughout the app.

Clippy, the animated paperclip from Microsoft Office’s previous, additionally will get its long-overdue tribute. The new emoji replaces the static, boring paperclip emoji for a seemingly sentient one with bulging eyes. No phrase on whether or not choosing the clipboard emoji will trigger the little buddy to pop up and ask to help you.

You can now entry a number of the new Microsoft emoji in Flipgrid, a video chat app for college kids and educators. Microsoft Teams and Windows will see the brand new emoji this vacation season, whereas Yammer, Outlook, and different apps will get their updates in 2022.