Fula skin tone: Fitzpatrick type and undertone in 35 observed portraits
Fula: fitzpatrick skin type VI in 66% of 35; undertone warm in 97% of 35.
Catalog portraits for Fula 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 = 35 assessable · 1 not assessableSix-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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| VRarely burns, tans deeply. Brown skin tone. Common in South Asian, North African, Middle Eastern, some Latin American populations. | 34% | 12 | |
| VINever burns, deeply pigmented at baseline. Common in Sub-Saharan African, African-diaspora, some South Asian, some Pacific Islander populations. | 66% | 23 |
Vocabulary: Fitzpatrick skin type (fitzpatrick_1988)
Undertone
n = 35 assessable · 1 not assessableHue 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| warmYellow, peach, or golden cast. Veins on inner wrist appear greenish. | 97% | 34 | |
| coolPink, rosy, or bluish cast. Veins on inner wrist appear blue or purple. | 3% | 1 |
Vocabulary: Skin undertone (undertone_qualitative)
Where these numbers come from
36 publicly documented portraits of notable Fula people were assessed by a vision model against the catalog vocabulary, one row per portrait. 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. Mean model confidence for this family: 0.76. 47% of portraits are high quality.
The same rows are published as image_observations in the catalog dataset; see the methodology. A family page exists only when at least 10 portraits carry an assessable value.