The Fitzpatrick scale – A numerical classification schema for human skin color

Posted by kyleee on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:14AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

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Re:The Fitzpatrick scale – A numerical classification schema... by kyleee on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:17AM (#24371915)

Interesting that the emoji council adapted it for the skin tone variations in emojis:

"The Fitzpatrick scale is also the basis of skin color in emoji, with 5 modifiers according to the Fitzpatrick scale (types I and II merged)."

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Re:The Fitzpatrick scale – A numerical classification schema... by burfog on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:44AM (#24372069)

Well, sort of. They discriminated against types I and II.

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Re:The Fitzpatrick scale – A numerical classification schema... by kyleee on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:52AM (#24372103)

I do wonder why they merged two tones

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