🕴️ Person in Suit Levitating 🕴️

Connare connected some dots. He was a fan of lively, exuberant ska music, whose devotees often sported sharp suits, pencil ties and pork-pie hats, and Connare decided that “jump” would be best exemplified by a pogoing figure wearing those same clothes. He modelled his design on the logo of a record label called 2 Tone, which took the form of a louche, smiling figure clad in ska’s trademark uniform. 2 Tone, in turn, had based that logo on a 1965 photograph of a reggae musician named Peter Tosh. And so, not only does PERSON IN SUIT LEVITATING predate emoji, but it is one of the few — only? — emoji that can draw a line of descent back to a real person.