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CITATION.cff

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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use OpenMoji in an academic context, please cite it using the metadata from this file."
+type: dataset
+title: "OpenMoji"
+abstract: >
+  OpenMoji is an open-source emoji and icon project. It provides over 4,000 carefully designed emojis and icons for designers, developers, and everyone else, covering the full Unicode emoji set plus many custom additions.
+  All graphics are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
+date-released: "2018-02-09"
+license: CC-BY-SA-4.0
+url: "https://openmoji.org"
+repository-code: "https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji"
+keywords:
+  - emoji
+  - unicode
+  - open source
+  - icons
+  - design
+  - openmoji
+authors:
+  - family-names: Groß
+    given-names: Benedikt
+    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5397-6348"
+    affiliation: "HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd"
+  - family-names: Utz
+    given-names: Daniel
+    affiliation: "HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd"
+  - name: "The OpenMoji Contributors"
+    website: "https://openmoji.org/about/#authors--team"

README.md

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 - [OpenMoji Spritemap Generator](https://github.com/axelpale/openmoji-spritemap-generator): OpenMoji combined to handy sprite images
 - [OpenMoji in Fedora](https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/hfg-gmuend-openmoji-fonts): For Fedora 33 and newer, `sudo yum install hfg-gmuend-openmoji-fonts-all`
 - [OpenMoji in JavaFX](https://github.com/pavlobu/emoji-text-flow-javafx): A cross-platform JavaFX library allowing you to replace all standard emoji in extended TextFlow (EmojiTextFlow) with OpenMoji.
-- [OpenMoji Awesome CSS Classes](https://github.com/gromain/openmoji-awesome): "Font Awesome" flavored CSS classes eg. `<i class="oma oma-face-with-monocle"></i>` ready to use for websites.  
+- [OpenMoji Awesome CSS Classes](https://github.com/gromain/openmoji-awesome): "Font Awesome" flavored CSS classes eg. `<i class="oma oma-face-with-monocle"></i>` ready to use for websites.
 - [OpenMoji Flutter](https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_openmoji): OpenMoji usable as Icon for the Flutter framework.
 
 
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 ² Code licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 ([LGPL-3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html))
 
 [![License: LGPL-3.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-LGPL%20v3-lightgrey.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html)
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use OpenMoji in an academic context, please cite it as:
+
+> Groß, B., Utz, D., & The OpenMoji Contributors. (2025). OpenMoji [Dataset]. https://openmoji.org
+
+<details>
+<summary>BibTeX</summary>
+
+```bibtex
+@dataset{openmoji,
+  author  = {Groß, Benedikt and Utz, Daniel and {The OpenMoji Contributors}},
+  title   = {{OpenMoji}},
+  year    = {2018--2025},
+  url     = {https://openmoji.org},
+  note    = {License: CC BY-SA 4.0}
+}
+```
+
+</details>