Albanians skin tone: Fitzpatrick type and undertone in 26 observed portraits

Albanians: fitzpatrick skin type Range II-III in 50% of 26; skin undertone Warm (yellow / golden) in 63% of 16; pigmentation pattern Uniform in 91% of 34; freckling density None in 96% of 47.

Catalog portraits for Albanians are AI-generated adult subjects; the measurements on this page come from documented photographs of real people, not from these images.

Fitzpatrick skin type

n = 26 assessable · 32 not assessable

Six-class ordinal classification of constitutive skin pigmentation, originally developed for sun-reactivity assessment but now the de-facto skin-tone vocabulary in dermatology and computer-vision fairness research.

Value	Share	n
Type II — fairBurns easily, tans minimally. Fair skin, light hair, light eyes. Common in Northern European populations.	4%	1
Type III — mediumSometimes burns, gradually tans. Light olive to medium skin tone. Common in Mediterranean European, Middle Eastern, and East Asian populations.	15%	4
Type V — brownRarely burns, tans deeply. Brown skin tone. Common in South Asian, North African, Middle Eastern, some Latin American populations.	4%	1
Range II-IIIBridging type used when assessment indicates the subject sits between Types II and III. Acceptable per the original Fitzpatrick description.	50%	13
Range III-IVBridging type used when assessment indicates the subject sits between Types III and IV.	27%	7

Vocabulary: Fitzpatrick skin type (fitzpatrick_1988)

Skin undertone

n = 16 assessable · 42 not assessable

Hue character of the skin independent of overall depth (Fitzpatrick). Reflects relative balance of hemoglobin (red), melanin (brown), and carotenoid (yellow) contributions to perceived color.

Value	Share	n
Warm (yellow / golden)Yellow, peach, or golden cast. Veins on inner wrist appear greenish.	63%	10
OliveGreenish-yellow cast; common in Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and some South / Southeast Asian populations. Often grouped with warm in cosmetic shorthand but anatomically distinct.	13%	2
Cool (pink / red / blue)Pink, rosy, or bluish cast. Veins on inner wrist appear blue or purple.	13%	2
NeutralBalanced; neither warm nor cool dominant.	13%	2

Vocabulary: Skin undertone (undertone_qualitative)

Pigmentation pattern

n = 34 assessable · 22 not assessable

Distribution pattern of skin pigmentation independent of overall Fitzpatrick depth.

Value	Share	n
UniformEven pigmentation across visible skin; no obvious lighter or darker patches.	91%	31
MottledIrregular patches of varying pigmentation without a single named pattern.	6%	2
LentiginesLarger, persistent macules independent of sun exposure. Common with photoaging; can also be constitutional.	3%	1

Vocabulary: Pigmentation pattern (pigmentation_pattern_qualitative)

Freckling density

n = 47 assessable

Density of visible freckles (ephelides) on the face. A separate dimension from pigmentation_pattern because freckling density varies continuously and is meaningful even within the freckled category.

Value	Share	n
NoneNo discernible freckles.	96%	45
FewSparse freckles, scattered, easy to count individually.	4%	2

Vocabulary: Freckling density (freckle_density_qualitative)

Where these numbers come from

70 publicly documented portraits of notable Albanians people were assessed by a vision model against the full 22-vocabulary schema, one value per dimension. Values are what the photographs show, read by a model, not population measurements. Each table counts only portraits where the value could be assessed; covered, obscured and unclear portraits are reported separately.

Notable-people corpora skew older, so hair color over-represents gray and white, and image quality varies. Treat shares as a description of this sample.

These rows are not yet in the published catalog dataset, which currently carries the earlier single-row analysis; see the methodology. A family page exists only when at least 10 portraits carry an assessable value.