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Medium skin tone

Medium skin tone Emoji

Objects

A flat, solid patch of warm, tan-colored pigment. This modifier is applied to human-form emojis to shift their skin appearance to a medium-toned shade.

Usage Context

Used to customize the appearance of character emojis to better reflect real-world diversity. Users append this to emojis like šŸ‘ or šŸ‘‹ to create a personalized representation of themselves or others during digital conversations.

History

Introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, these modifiers were developed alongside the Fitzpatrick scale to address long-standing demands for greater inclusivity in digital communication, moving away from the default 'simpson-yellow' look of early platform icons.

Details

Glyph
šŸ½
Unicode
U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3fd:
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
4mediumskintonetypemodifierdiversityinclusivehumancomplexion

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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