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Medium-light skin tone Emoji

Objects

A square patch displaying a light tan, warm-toned skin color. It serves as a modifier to change the appearance of various human-based emojis, shifting their default yellow look to a specific skin tone.

Usage Context

This modifier is applied to person, body part, and gesture emojis to represent diverse appearances. Users frequently pair it with emojis like 👍 or 👋 to create a more personalized or representative communication style.

History

Introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, this modifier was developed based on the Fitzpatrick scale, a recognized dermatological classification system. It was part of a major industry push to bring more inclusive, human-centric representation to digital messaging platforms worldwide.

Details

Glyph
🏼
Unicode
U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Microsoft
Category Objects
Subcategory skin-tone
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
3medium-lightskintonetypefitzpatrickmodifierhumandiversitycomplexion

Microsoft Fluent License

Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.

Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.

MIT LicenseFluent Emoji Repository

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