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)

Skin tone to use for emoji.