Artist: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium-light skin tone holding a wooden paint palette with colorful blobs of pigment. They are depicted with a paintbrush in hand, ready to apply color to a canvas.

Usage Context

Used to represent painters, creative professionals, or someone engaged in an artistic hobby. It is frequently sent alongside art-related icons like 🎨 or 🖼️ to discuss creative projects, gallery visits, or the act of making something from scratch.

History

While the base artist character was added to the Unicode standard in 2016, the ability to modify the skin tone was introduced later as part of a wider push to make character emojis more inclusive of diverse populations across digital platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🎨

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F3A8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f3a8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83C;&#xDFA8;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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