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Medium skin tone

Medium skin tone Emoji

Objects

A flat, solid patch of warm, tan-colored pigment. This modifier is applied to human-form emojis to shift their skin appearance to a medium-toned shade.

Usage Context

Used to customize the appearance of character emojis to better reflect real-world diversity. Users append this to emojis like 👍 or 👋 to create a personalized representation of themselves or others during digital conversations.

History

Introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, these modifiers were developed alongside the Fitzpatrick scale to address long-standing demands for greater inclusivity in digital communication, moving away from the default 'simpson-yellow' look of early platform icons.

Details

Glyph
🏽
Unicode
U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f3fd:
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
4mediumskintonetypemodifierdiversityinclusivehumancomplexion

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.

CC-BY 4.0 LicenseTwemoji Repository

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