An updated version of my color set listing different human skin tones from around the world. Now also includes hair and eye colors as well!
This color set includes a variety of skin tones as well as hair and eye colors to represent the different pigmentations of human beings around the world. It is an updated version of a color set for skin tones I released back in April 2018. Now you should be able to color in characters from all parts of the world!
The skin tones included can be sorted into three subcategories, each containing three distinct tones. To obtain suitable colors for lips, nipples, or blushing and sunburns, take each of the included tones and make them slightly darker and more reddish in tint.
- Dark skin tones, for the indigenous populations of Africa, India, Melanesia, and Australasia. The three dark tones in this subcategory, from darkest to lightest, are labeled Sudanic, Bantu, and Egyptian.
- Intermediate skin tones are ideal for Mediterranean Europeans, Middle Easterners, most Native Americans, Southeast Asians and Polynesians, and South African Khoisan. These tones can also be used for "biracial" individuals with one darker-skinned and one lighter-skinned parent. The tones in this set classified as intermediate are labeled Khoisan, Central American, and Hellenic.
- Pale skin tones are those associated with Northeast Asians (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans), the more northerly Native Americans, and "white" Northern Europeans. The tones here are labeled Chinese, French, and Norse (the last also being suitable for albino people of any ethnic heritage).
Hair colors in the set are Raven, Brunette, Light Brunette, Dark Blond, Blond, Ginger, Grizzled, and "Ice Blond" (as my beloved old man likes to call it). As a general rule, most human beings around the world have raven-black hair, whereas blonder and redder hair colors are associated with Europeans north of the Mediterranean basin. However, older people of any ancestry will take on gray and then "ice blond" hair as they age.
Eye colors included are Dark, Light Brown, Hazel, Green, and Blue. Darker eye colors are preferred for the majority of humans outside of Europe, whereas green and blue are associated with Northern Europeans (although albinos also have blue eyes).
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