The lack of proper skin tone options have been a long controversial issue in the Animal Crossing series, but it looks as if Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer is set to change that later this year based on this screenshot from the latest trailer. (animalcrossingworld.com)
Other efforts have recently been made to improve the diversity of emojis such as the addition of more skin tone options. (9to5google.com)
Emoji have been customizable with various skin tone options since 2015, and Microsoft introduced 52K new emoji with the release of Windows 10 in 2016, to account for all possible combinations in a family unit. (onlinepersonalswatch.com)