skin-tone

skin-tone

Change the skin tone of an emoji 👌👌🏻👌🏼👌🏽👌🏾👌🏿

The Fitzpatrick scale is used to specify skin tones for emoji characters which represent humans.

Install

npm install skin-tone

Usage

import skinTone from 'skin-tone';

skinTone('👍', 'brown');
//=> '👍🏾'

skinTone('👍', 'white');
//=> '👍🏻'

// Can also remove skin tone
skinTone('👍🏾', 'none');
//=> '👍'

// Just passes it through when not supported
skinTone('🦄', 'darkBrown');
//=> '🦄'

API

skinTone(emoji, type)

emoji

Type: string

Emoji to modify.

type

Type: 'none' | 'white' | 'creamWhite' | 'lightBrown' | 'brown' | 'darkBrown'

Skin tone to use for emoji.

• 'none' : (Removes skin tone)
• 'white' : 🏻 (Fitzpatrick Type-1–2)
• 'creamWhite' : 🏼 (Fitzpatrick Type-3)
• 'lightBrown' : 🏽 (Fitzpatrick Type-4)
• 'brown' : 🏾 (Fitzpatrick Type-5)
• 'darkBrown' : 🏿 (Fitzpatrick Type-6)

[!NOTE]
'none' removes only skin tone modifiers. Presentation selectors (like \uFE0F) are not restored, because the original selector state is lost once a skin tone is applied. Both forms (✌ and ✌️) are valid.