# Emoji rendering gate 😀 This fixture exists to prove that emoji code points render as real color glyphs in the output PDF, not as `.notdef` tofu boxes (▯). Color emoji on one line: 😀 ❤️ 🚀 ✅ 💡 A variation-selector sequence (FE0F) renders color: ❤️ — the bare code point ❤ is text-style. Both must come from a font in the cascade, never tofu. Non-emoji Unicode (unchanged, regression guard): em dash —, times ×, arrow →, bullet •, ellipsis …