diff --git a/app/client/ui2018/cssVars.ts b/app/client/ui2018/cssVars.ts
index 195cfda7..df027c76 100644
--- a/app/client/ui2018/cssVars.ts
+++ b/app/client/ui2018/cssVars.ts
@@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ export const theme = {
     undefined, colors.slate),
   pageInitialsFg: new CustomProp('theme-left-panel-page-initials-fg', undefined, 'white'),
   pageInitialsBg: new CustomProp('theme-left-panel-page-initials-bg', undefined, colors.slate),
+  pageInitialsEmojiBg: new CustomProp('theme-left-panel-page-emoji-fg', undefined, 'white'),
+  pageInitialsEmojiOutline: new CustomProp('theme-left-panel-page-emoji-outline', undefined,
+    colors.darkGrey),
 
   /* Right Panel */
   rightPanelTabFg: new CustomProp('theme-right-panel-tab-fg', undefined, colors.dark),
diff --git a/app/client/ui2018/pages.ts b/app/client/ui2018/pages.ts
index 296afa14..29484daf 100644
--- a/app/client/ui2018/pages.ts
+++ b/app/client/ui2018/pages.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { theme } from "app/client/ui2018/cssVars";
 import { icon } from "app/client/ui2018/icons";
 import { hoverTooltip, overflowTooltip } from 'app/client/ui/tooltips';
 import { menu, menuItem, menuText } from "app/client/ui2018/menus";
-import { dom, domComputed, DomElementArg, makeTestId, observable, Observable, styled } from "grainjs";
+import { Computed, dom, domComputed, DomElementArg, makeTestId, observable, Observable, styled } from "grainjs";
 
 const t = makeT('pages');
 
@@ -54,17 +54,21 @@ export function buildPageDom(name: Observable<string>, actions: PageActions, ...
     }
   });
 
+  const splitName = Computed.create(null, name, (use, _name) => splitPageInitial(_name));
+
   return pageElem = dom(
     'div',
     dom.autoDispose(lis),
+    dom.autoDispose(splitName),
     domComputed((use) => use(name) === '', blank => blank ? dom('div', '-') :
       domComputed(isRenaming, (isrenaming) => (
         isrenaming ?
           cssPageItem(
             cssPageInitial(
               testId('initial'),
-              dom.text((use) => Array.from(use(name))[0])
-              ),
+              dom.text((use) => use(splitName).initial),
+              cssPageInitial.cls('-emoji', (use) => use(splitName).hasEmoji),
+            ),
             cssEditorInput(
               {
                 initialValue: name.get() || '',
@@ -82,10 +86,11 @@ export function buildPageDom(name: Observable<string>, actions: PageActions, ...
           cssPageItem(
             cssPageInitial(
               testId('initial'),
-              dom.text((use) => Array.from(use(name))[0]),
+              dom.text((use) => use(splitName).initial),
+              cssPageInitial.cls('-emoji', (use) => use(splitName).hasEmoji),
             ),
             cssPageName(
-              dom.text(name),
+              dom.text((use) => use(splitName).displayName),
               testId('label'),
               dom.on('click', (ev) => isTargetSelected(ev.target as HTMLElement) && isRenaming.set(true)),
               overflowTooltip(),
@@ -122,6 +127,24 @@ export function buildCensoredPage() {
   );
 }
 
+// This crazy expression matches all "possible emoji" and comes from a very official source:
+// https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#EBNF_and_Regex (linked from
+// https://stackoverflow.com/a/68146409/328565). It is processed from the original by replacing \x
+// with \u, removing whitespace, and factoring out a long subexpression.
+const emojiPart = /(?:\p{RI}\p{RI}|\p{Emoji}(?:\p{EMod}|\u{FE0F}\u{20E3}?|[\u{E0020}-\u{E007E}]+\u{E007F})?)/u;
+const pageInitialRegex = new RegExp(`^${emojiPart.source}(?:\\u{200D}${emojiPart.source})*`, "u");
+
+// Divide up the page name into an "initial" and "displayName", where an emoji initial, if
+// present, is omitted from the displayName, but a regular character used as the initial is kept.
+function splitPageInitial(name: string): {initial: string, displayName: string, hasEmoji: boolean} {
+  const m = name.match(pageInitialRegex);
+  if (m) {
+    return {initial: m[0], displayName: name.slice(m[0].length).trim(), hasEmoji: true};
+  } else {
+    return {initial: Array.from(name)[0], displayName: name.trim(), hasEmoji: false};
+  }
+}
+
 const cssPageItem = styled('a', `
   display: flex;
   flex-direction: row;
@@ -129,7 +152,8 @@ const cssPageItem = styled('a', `
   align-items: center;
   flex-grow: 1;
   .${treeViewContainer.className}-close & {
-    margin-left: 16px;
+    display: flex;
+    justify-content: center;
   }
   &, &:hover, &:focus {
     text-decoration: none;
@@ -143,10 +167,25 @@ const cssPageInitial = styled('div', `
   color: ${theme.pageInitialsFg};
   border-radius: 3px;
   background-color: ${theme.pageInitialsBg};
-  width: 16px;
-  height: 16px;
-  text-align: center;
+  width: 20px;
+  height: 20px;
   margin-right: 8px;
+  display: flex;
+  justify-content: center;
+  align-items: center;
+
+  &-emoji {
+    background-color: ${theme.pageInitialsEmojiBg};
+    box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px var(--grist-theme-left-panel-page-emoji-outline, var(--grist-color-dark-grey));
+    font-size: 15px;
+    overflow: hidden;
+  }
+  .${treeViewContainer.className}-close & {
+    margin-right: 0;
+  }
+  .${itemHeader.className}.selected &-emoji {
+    box-shadow: none;
+  }
 `);
 
 const cssPageName = styled('div', `
diff --git a/app/common/ThemePrefs.ts b/app/common/ThemePrefs.ts
index e6f55aaf..39ae7193 100644
--- a/app/common/ThemePrefs.ts
+++ b/app/common/ThemePrefs.ts
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ export interface ThemeColors {
   'left-panel-page-options-selected-hover-bg': string;
   'left-panel-page-initials-fg': string;
   'left-panel-page-initials-bg': string;
+  'left-panel-page-emoji-fg': string;
+  'left-panel-page-emoji-outline': string;
 
   /* Right Panel */
   'right-panel-tab-fg': string;
diff --git a/app/common/themes/GristDark.ts b/app/common/themes/GristDark.ts
index 84f1aa28..4d782a1d 100644
--- a/app/common/themes/GristDark.ts
+++ b/app/common/themes/GristDark.ts
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ export const GristDark: ThemeColors = {
   'left-panel-page-options-selected-hover-bg': '#A4A4A4',
   'left-panel-page-initials-fg': 'white',
   'left-panel-page-initials-bg': '#929299',
+  'left-panel-page-emoji-fg': 'black',
+  'left-panel-page-emoji-outline': '#69697D',
 
   /* Right Panel */
   'right-panel-tab-fg': '#EFEFEF',
diff --git a/app/common/themes/GristLight.ts b/app/common/themes/GristLight.ts
index fc0af490..ecb969aa 100644
--- a/app/common/themes/GristLight.ts
+++ b/app/common/themes/GristLight.ts
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ export const GristLight: ThemeColors = {
   'left-panel-page-options-selected-hover-bg': '#929299',
   'left-panel-page-initials-fg': 'white',
   'left-panel-page-initials-bg': '#929299',
+  'left-panel-page-emoji-fg': 'white',
+  'left-panel-page-emoji-outline': '#BDBDBD',
 
   /* Right Panel */
   'right-panel-tab-fg': '#262633',
diff --git a/test/nbrowser/Pages.ts b/test/nbrowser/Pages.ts
index 81d98310..13969753 100644
--- a/test/nbrowser/Pages.ts
+++ b/test/nbrowser/Pages.ts
@@ -259,6 +259,42 @@ describe('Pages', function() {
     assert.include(await gu.getPageNames(), 'People');
   });
 
+  it('should pull out emoji from page names', async () => {
+    // A regular character is used as an initial AND kept in the name.
+    assert.deepEqual(await getInitialAndName(/People/), ['P', 'People']);
+
+    // It looks like our version of Chromedriver does not support sending emojis using sendKeys
+    // (issue mentioned here https://stackoverflow.com/a/59139690), so we'll use executeScript to
+    // rename pages.
+    async function renamePage(origName: string, newName: string) {
+      await gu.openPageMenu(origName);
+      await driver.find('.test-docpage-rename').doClick();
+      const editor = await driver.find('.test-docpage-editor');
+      await driver.executeScript((el: HTMLInputElement, text: string) => { el.value = text; }, editor, newName);
+      await editor.sendKeys(Key.ENTER);
+      await gu.waitForServer();
+    }
+
+    async function getInitialAndName(pageName: string|RegExp): Promise<[string, string]> {
+      return await driver.findContent('.test-treeview-itemHeader', pageName)
+      .findAll('.test-docpage-initial, .test-docpage-label', el => el.getText()) as [string,
+        string];
+    }
+
+    // An emoji is pulled into the initial, and is removed from the name.
+    await renamePage('People', '👥 People');
+
+    assert.deepEqual(await getInitialAndName(/People/), ['👥', 'People']);
+
+    // Two complex emojis -- the first one is the pulled-out initial.
+    await renamePage('People', '👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧Guest List');
+    assert.deepEqual(await getInitialAndName(/Guest List/),
+      ['👨‍👩‍👧‍👦', '👨‍👩‍👧Guest List']);
+
+    await gu.undo(2);
+    assert.deepEqual(await getInitialAndName(/People/), ['P', 'People']);
+  });
+
   it('should show tooltip for long page names on hover', async () => {
     await gu.openPageMenu('People');
     await driver.find('.test-docpage-rename').doClick();