Is there a way to get colored emoji in any terminal emulator on Linux?

...a full year later:

The latest cairo update:

$ pacman -Q cairo
cairo 1.15.8-2

...added support for color emojis in terminals:

I tested this using Termite and gnome-terminal. Both worked. The update is available at least on Arch Linux, maybe it'll be on other distros soon. Enjoy!

On Ubuntu Gnome 18.04 LTS colored emoji are available out of the box.

If you use XFCE you can install gnome-terminal to enable them on many terminal emulators (terminator, gnome, etc ...)