Too many emoji
emoji-densityon by default (info)Japanese / English
So many emoji that the decoration drowns the text
Example
Flagged
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What chaff prints
1:25 16 emoji per 1000 words (limit 8)
Fixed
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What chaff prints
no finding
The rule measures the whole document, so this example was tried with an ordinary passage (about 200 words) after it that gives chaff nothing to report.
How to fix
Where a heading or emphasis would do the same job, use that instead.
Why it matters
One emoji marks a spot. Many turn the text into decoration, and a screen reader has to say all of them.
What it does not flag
Documents under 200 words are not measured.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Silence this one spot (in the document)
<!-- stet: emoji-density — reason -->
Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)
npx chaffjs relax emoji-density --why "reason"
Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)
rules:
emoji-density: off
Technical details
- Layer
- L1
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- info
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- blog, business, technical, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | up to 3 emoji per 1000 words |
|---|---|
| normal | up to 8 emoji per 1000 words |
| relaxed | up to 20 emoji per 1000 words |
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address, speech/transcript
- Turned off by the genre in
- literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play
Message
{density} emoji per 1000 words (limit {limit})
Sources
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/emoji-density.yaml