Light skin tone
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- Shortcode
:light_skin_tone:- Unicode
U+1F3FB- HTML
🏻- CSS
\1F3FB- JavaScript
"\u{1F3FB}"- URL
%F0%9F%8F%BB
What ๐ป means
The lightest of the five skin tone modifiers. Attached to a person or hand emoji, it turns that emoji a pale skin color, as in ๐๐ป or ๐๐ป.
People pick it to match their own skin, so a wave or thumbs up looks like them. A long-press on a person or hand emoji opens the tone picker, and many keyboards then remember the choice.
Sent alone, it shows as a small square swatch of color. Some light-skinned people stay with the default yellow instead, which is also normal.
Facts
Light skin tone ๐ป 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 :light_skin_tone:. People also look for it with words like โ1โ2โ, โlightโ, 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.