Six-year project mapping thousands of real skin tones to reveal the spectrum of humanity

    by SystematicApproach

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    1. Obviously the pixels contain slight variations in colour, hundreds of hues, if not more. Do you compute the ‘main’ colour based on the average amount of times that colour code is present?

    2. SystematicApproach on

      SS: This is part of “Humanæ” by artist Angélica Dass. She photographed thousands of people from around the world and matched their skin tones to Pantone colors to highlight the full human spectrum and show how artificial racial color categories are.

    3. Puzzleheaded_Smoke77 on

      Honestly I feel like you could have just drove up and down California and you could have nailed this in 6 months. Maybe it was convincing people to take low cut head shots and post it .

    4. blind_lemon410 on

      Can somebody explain to me what the numbers mean? Also, why even have a letter after the number if every letter is C.

    5. Beautiful project.

      Also the pink dudes have me dying. I’m a white man btw. So funny and authentic. We really should be calling white people pink people from now on.

    6. You’ll actually find a *lot* of sunburnt people in southern USA because they don’t wear sunscreen thoroughly enough.

      It might as well be considered its own seperate skin tone.

    7. But wait, I thought that DNA analysis has revealed all modern humans are descended from a single female, which would mean it’s all just matter of how much time your ancestors spent in the sunlight

    8. I wonder if you asked people what color they thought were before seeing it, what that would reveal.

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