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Medium-light skin tone

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 Twitter/X
Category Objects
Subcategory skin-tone
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
3medium-lightskintonetypefitzpatrickmodifierhumandiversitycomplexion

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

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