This time next year people with ginger hair could finally have their own emoji.
There's been a global campaign to get the redhead emoji included, in Scotland over 20,000 people signed a petition demanding redheads be represented.
Now, a list of 67 draft emojis has been compiled by Unicode to gain status by June 2018.
President and co-founder of Unicode Mark Davis tweeted to UK Redhead Campaigner Jeremy Burge so it looks like it's definitely a runner for next Summer:
67 new #emoji advanced to Draft Candidate status for 2018 by #UTC152. #unicode #montypython #hero #heroine #softball @jeremyburge @ken_lunde
— Mark Davis ☕ (@mark_e_davis) August 3, 2017
Apple currently has six different skin tones, and over a dozen hair styles for its characters but has faced criticism on social media for not introducing a redhead.
There's already been celebrations on Twitter with one user saying its 'a big step towards ginger equality'.
Founder of the Irish Redhead Convention is Joleen Crowley says she's all for ginger equality:
