Dark skin tone
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- Shortcode
:dark_skin_tone:- Unicode
U+1F3FF- HTML
🏿- CSS
\1F3FF- JavaScript
"\u{1F3FF}"- URL
%F0%9F%8F%BF
What ๐ฟ means
The darkest of the five skin tone modifiers, a deep brown. It changes the emoji right before it, so ๐ค becomes ๐ค๐ฟ and ๐ฉ becomes ๐ฉ๐ฟ.
People with dark skin use it so that their faces, hands and gestures in chat match them. Many see choosing it as a small act of representation.
Alone, it is just a dark square. The five tones follow a dermatology scale of skin types.
Facts
Dark skin tone ๐ฟ is an emoji in the components category, under skin tone. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :dark_skin_tone:. People also look for it with words like โ6โ, โdarkโ, โskinโ, or โtoneโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.