diff --git a/config/fontconfig/01-emojifonts.conf b/config/fontconfig/01-emojifonts.conf
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<fontconfig>
+  <alias>
+    <family>serif</family>
+    <prefer>
+      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
+    </prefer>
+  </alias>
+  <alias>
+    <family>sans-serif</family>
+    <prefer>
+      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
+    </prefer>
+  </alias>
+  <alias>
+    <family>monospace</family>
+    <prefer>
+      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
+    </prefer>
+  </alias>
+</fontconfig>
diff --git a/config/fontconfig/56-twemoji-color.conf b/config/fontconfig/56-twemoji-color.conf
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<!--
+Twitter Color Emoji SVGinOT Font
+Fontconfig fonts.conf for a Bitstream Vera default
+
+https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font
+
+The DejaVu font family is based on the Bitstream Vera font family to provide
+greater unicode coverage. The only way to override the emoji it includes is
+to make the emoji font the primary system font. This shouldn't be a problem,
+but a number of programs do not correctly use font fallback resulting in font
+rendering errors everywhere.
+
+This font.conf makes Bitstream Vera the default font for Serif, Sans-Serif,
+and Monospace font requests since it does not contain any Unicode Emoji
+characters. Twitter Color Emoji font is the first fallback, followed by DejaVu
+(or whatever the existing default is) to provide everything else.
+
+Install required fonts with:
+sudo apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera
+
+Test with:
+fc-match -s serif
+fc-match -s sans-serif
+fc-match -s monospace
+-->
+<fontconfig>
+  <match target="font">
+    <!-- If the requested font is Bitstream Vera Serif -->
+    <test name="family" compare="eq">
+        <string>Bitstream Vera Serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <!-- Replace the entire match list with Bitstream Vera Serif alone -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="assign_replace">
+      <string>Bitstream Vera Serif</string>
+    </edit>
+    <!-- Assign the serif family -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="append_last">
+      <string>serif</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match>
+    <!-- If the requested font is serif -->
+    <test qual="any" name="family">
+        <string>serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <!-- Make Bitstream Vera Serif the first result -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first">
+      <string>Bitstream Vera Serif</string>
+    </edit>
+    <!-- Followed by Twitter Color Emoji -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first">
+      <string>Twitter Color Emoji</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="font">
+    <!-- If the requested font is Bitstream Vera Sans -->
+    <test name="family" compare="eq">
+        <string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string>
+    </test>
+    <!-- Replace the entire match list with Bitstream Vera Sans alone -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="assign_replace">
+      <string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string>
+    </edit>
+    <!-- Assign the sans-serif family -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="append_last">
+      <string>sans-serif</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <!-- If the requested font is sans-serif -->
+    <test qual="any" name="family">
+        <string>sans-serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <!-- Make Bitstream Vera Sans the first result -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first">
+      <string>Bitstream Vera Sans</string>
+    </edit>
+    <!-- Followed by Twitter Color Emoji -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first">
+      <string>Twitter Color Emoji</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="font">
+    <!-- If the requested font is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono -->
+    <test name="family" compare="eq">
+        <string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
+    </test>
+    <!-- Replace the entire match list with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono alone -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="assign_replace">
+      <string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
+    </edit>
+    <!-- Assign the monospace family last -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="append_last">
+      <string>monospace</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <!-- If the requested font is monospace -->
+    <test qual="any" name="family">
+        <string>monospace</string>
+    </test>
+    <!--
+    Make Bitstream Vera Sans Mono the first result
+    Note: If you want a different monospace font, this is where you change it.
+    -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first">
+      <string>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</string>
+    </edit>
+    <!-- Followed by Twitter Color Emoji -->
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first">
+      <string>Twitter Color Emoji</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <!-- Add emoji generic family -->
+  <alias binding="strong">
+    <family>emoji</family>
+    <default><family>Twitter Color Emoji</family></default>
+  </alias>
+
+  <!-- Alias requests for the other emoji fonts -->
+  <alias binding="strong">
+    <family>Apple Color Emoji</family>
+    <prefer><family>Twitter Color Emoji</family></prefer>
+    <default><family>sans-serif</family></default>
+  </alias>
+  <alias binding="strong">
+    <family>Segoe UI Emoji</family>
+    <prefer><family>Twitter Color Emoji</family></prefer>
+    <default><family>sans-serif</family></default>
+  </alias>
+  <alias binding="strong">
+    <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
+    <prefer><family>Twitter Color Emoji</family></prefer>
+    <default><family>sans-serif</family></default>
+  </alias>
+</fontconfig>