Design Free Thursday // “Humanæ” Pantone Skin Colour Palette.

First there were Edible Pantone Swatches and now we have Pantone Skin Colour Palette. Concieved by Brazilian artist Angelica Dass, Humanæ is a chromatic inventory of human skin referencing the PANTONE® colours.

The project is based on a series of portraits where backgrounds are dyed with the exact Pantone tone extracted from a sample of 11 x 11 pixels of the portrayed’s face. The series’ objective is to record and catalog all possible human skin tones and complexions. Fascinating, no?

These images really highlight the countless shades of the human skin palette. It seems that MJ’s song (It don’t matter if you’re) black or white, should have sounded more like – It don’t matter if you’re ‘caramel toned dark chocolate’ or ‘pinky shade of white with yellow highlights’ type thing… Love it!

[Photos © Angelica Dass, via Humanæ.]