Man artist: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium skin tone holding a painter's palette and a brush. He is depicted wearing a classic beret, nodding to the traditional image of a creative professional at work.

Usage Context

Used to denote someone who is painting, drawing, or working on a craft. It’s frequently used by designers, painters, and art students to describe their profession or to show excitement about a creative project. It is often paired with emojis like 🎨 or 🖌️ to emphasize artistic output.

History

The artist emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a push to represent more occupations and personal roles. The man variant was later combined with skin tone modifiers in 2017 to provide more inclusive representation for users across diverse platforms.

Details

Glyph

👨🏽‍🎨

Unicode

U+1F468 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F3A8

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_1f3fd_200d_1f3a8:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#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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