Man artist: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-dark skin tone wearing a dark beret and holding a wooden artist's palette with dabs of colorful paint. The character is posed as if ready to apply a brushstroke to an invisible canvas.

Usage Context

Used to represent painters, creative professionals, or someone engaged in an artistic hobby. It is frequently sent when discussing gallery visits, art school, or sharing one's own creative work alongside emojis like 🎨 or 🖼️.

History

While the base man artist emoji was added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016, the skin tone variants were introduced shortly after via the Emoji Modifier sequences. This allowed users to better represent human diversity, which had been a missing component in early, generic emoji sets.

Details

Glyph

👨🏾‍🎨

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FE U+200D U+1F3A8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fe_200d_1f3a8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍&#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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