19/09/2022.
A collaboration of scientists from the UK, USA, Australia, and France have proposed a more objective and detailed way to describe the huge variety of skin colour, called the Eumelanin Human Skin Colour Scale (EHSCS) and measured with a simple colourimeter.
Current systems and terminology for general classification of skin colour are inadequate, subjective, exclusionary or just incorrect, and hamper our efforts to research and treat diseases of the body’s largest organ.
Keep reading at A new objective skin colour scale for research and clinical practice.