The Palace of Typographic Masonry is an (imaginary) institute for the splendour and variety of visual languages. On this partial map of The Annex of Universal Languages (housing the graphic languages in pursuit of universal systems; including utopian alphabets, iconic sign languages andideographic systems) Edgar Walthert moves through 18 important steps in the evolution of emoji becoming a global lingua franca and it covers arguments that agree and disagree with this position.