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Medium-light skin tone

Medium-light skin tone Emoji

Objects

A square patch displaying a light tan, warm-toned skin color. It serves as a modifier to change the appearance of various human-based emojis, shifting their default yellow look to a specific skin tone.

Usage Context

This modifier is applied to person, body part, and gesture emojis to represent diverse appearances. Users frequently pair it with emojis like šŸ‘ or šŸ‘‹ to create a more personalized or representative communication style.

History

Introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, this modifier was developed based on the Fitzpatrick scale, a recognized dermatological classification system. It was part of a major industry push to bring more inclusive, human-centric representation to digital messaging platforms worldwide.

Details

Glyph
šŸ¼
Unicode
U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Objects
Subcategory skin-tone
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Tags
3medium-lightskintonetypefitzpatrickmodifierhumandiversitycomplexion

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. Ā© Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0SIL OFL 1.1Noto Repository

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