🏻 Light Skin Tone

Emoji Meaning

A pale skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 1 on the Fitzpatrick Scale of skin tones is described as: Pale white; blond or red hair; blue eyes; freckles
Type 2 on the Fitzpatrick Scale of skin tones is described as: White; fair; blond or red hair; blue, green, or hazel eyes

This is a combination of type 1 (pale white) and type 2 (white). Despite the descriptions, Apple’s artwork tends to display this type-1-2 skin tone modifier with dark hair.

Light Skin Tone was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 under the name “Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-1-2” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Copy and Paste

Modifiers

The Light Skin Tone is supported with the following emojis.

Platforms without support for emoji modifiers display a missing symbol character (box with a cross, alien, or question mark in it) next to any modified emoji.

Unicode Name

🏻 Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-1-2

Apple
- iOS 14.6
- iOS 8.3
Google
Samsung
Microsoft
WhatsApp
- 2.21.16.20
- 2.17
Twitter
- Twemoji 13.1
- Twemoji 2.0
Facebook
- 13.1
- 3.0
- 2.0
JoyPixels
- 6.6
- 6.0
- 5.5
- 5.0
- 4.0
- 3.1
- 2.2.4
- 2.0
OpenMoji
- 13.1
- 12.0
LG
- Velvet
- G5

Codepoints

🏻 U+1F3FB

Shortcodes

:skin-tone-2: (Slack)
:light_skin_tone: (Emojipedia)

See also

Proposals

🏻 Light Skin Tone Emoji Proposal: L2/14-154, L2/14-173

More

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External Links

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