Man artist: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with light skin wearing a beret and holding a paintbrush, standing next to a classic wooden artist's palette filled with colorful paint blobs.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for discussing painting, creative hobbies, or professional art careers. It is often used to show support for a friend's craft or to signal that you are working on a project, frequently paired with the 🎨 art palette or the 🖌️ paintbrush.

History

Introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of the gender-inclusive expansion of professional emoji, this character was developed to allow for more diverse representations of creative roles. The light skin tone variant was made possible through the adoption of the Fitzpatrick scale, allowing users to customize the character to better match their own appearance.

Details

Glyph

👨🏻‍🎨

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F3A8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fb_200d_1f3a8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#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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