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Human skin color. Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues. Differences in skin color among individuals is caused by variation in pigmentation, which is the result of genetics (inherited from one's biological parents ), exposure to the sun, disorders, or some combination thereof.
Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum ( oak bark) used in the tanning of leather. [ 1] The first recorded use of tan as a color name in English was in the year 1590. [ 2] Colors which are similar or may be considered synonymous to tan include: tawny, tenné, and fulvous .
Skin colors according to von Luschan's chromatic scale. Von Luschan's chromatic scale ( VLS) is a method of classifying skin color. It is also called the von Luschan scale or von Luschan's scale. It is named after its inventor, Felix von Luschan. The equipment consisted of 36 opaque glass tiles which were compared to the subject's skin, ideally ...
Fitzpatrick scale. The Fitzpatrick scale (also Fitzpatrick skin typing test; or Fitzpatrick phototyping scale) is a numerical classification schema for human skin color. It was developed in 1975 by American dermatologist Thomas B. Fitzpatrick as a way to estimate the response of different types of skin to ultraviolet (UV) light. [ 2]
The color adjectives used in 1779 are weiss "white" ( Caucasian race ), gelbbraun "yellow-brown" ( Mongolian race ), schwarz "black" ( Aethiopian race ), kupferrot "copper-red" ( American race) and schwarzbraun "black-brown" ( Malayan race ). [ 11] Blumenbach belonged to a group known as the Göttingen school of history, which helped to ...
Olive skin. Olive skin is a human skin tone. It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type III [ 1][ 2] to Type IV and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale. [ 3][ 4] It generally refers to moderate or lighter tan or brownish skin, and it is often described as having tan, brown, cream, greenish, yellowish, or golden undertones. [ 5][ 6 ...
Tawny (color) The tawny owl ( Strix aluco) gives an example of tawny used as an adjective in a name. Latin scientific names may use the adjective fulvus (or variations), meaning tawny or fulvous. An example is Cinnycerthia fulva, the binomial name of the fulvous wren. Tawny (also called tenné) is a light brown to brownish- orange color.
Brown. Brown colors are dark or muted shades of reds, oranges, and yellows on the RGB and CMYK color schemes. In practice, browns are created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB color scheme (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should produce black, but produce brown because most commercially available ...