Emoji 1
medium-dark skin tone
Also known as 5, medium-dark, skin, tone, type
A medium-dark skin tone modifier square, based on Fitzpatrick type 5, used to adjust the skin color of people and body-part emojis.
Meaning
The medium-dark skin tone emoji is a modifier that changes the default yellow skin of human emojis to a medium-dark brown. It is combined with hand gestures, people, and body-part emojis to represent individuals with darker skin tones. Displayed alone, it appears as a plain color swatch.
Unicode name
Officially named Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-5, it represents the medium-dark skin tone on the Fitzpatrick scale of human skin color.
Platform designs
Apple
On Apple devices it appears as a rounded square filled with a solid medium-dark brown skin tone.
Google
In Google Noto Color Emoji it is a rounded square swatch filled with a flat medium-dark brown tone.
Twitter
In Twitter Twemoji it is shown as a rounded square in a solid medium-dark brown shade.
Noto (Apache 2.0) · Twemoji (CC BY 4.0) · OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
Which Unicode version added 🏾 medium-dark skin tone?
🏾 medium-dark skin tone was added in Emoji 1. Its codepoint is U+1F3FE, made up of 1 code points.
