{"id":63825,"date":"2022-05-13T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63825"},"modified":"2022-05-16T14:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:28:09","slug":"improving-skin-tone-representation-across-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63825","title":{"rendered":"Improving skin tone representation across Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/search\/monk-skin-tone-scale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Improving skin tone representation across Google<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google<\/a><br \/>\n2022-05-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tulseedoshi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tulsee Doshi<\/strong><\/a>, Head of Product, Responsible AI<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/search\/monk-skin-tone-scale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 95%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/images\/Skin_Tone_v2_2096x8752x.max-1000x1000.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nSeeing yourself reflected in the world around you \u2014 in real life, media or online \u2014 is so important. And we know that challenges with image-based technologies and representation on the web have historically left people of color feeling overlooked and misrepresented. Last year, we announced <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/pixel\/image-equity-real-tone-pixel-6-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Tone for Pixel<\/a>, which is just one example of our efforts to improve representation of diverse skin tones across Google products.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re introducing a next step in our commitment to image equity and improving representation across our products. In partnership with Harvard professor and sociologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellismonk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Ellis Monk<\/a>, we\u2019re releasing a new skin tone scale designed to be more inclusive of the spectrum of skin tones we see in our society. Dr. Monk has been studying how skin tone and colorism affect people\u2019s lives for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/skintone.google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; width: 95%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/images\/Monk_Skin_Tone.max-1000x1000.max-1000x1000.png\"><\/a><figcaption style=\"font-size: x-small; text-align: center; display: block; width: 95%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\">The 10 shades of the <a href=\"http:\/\/skintone.google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monk Skin Tone Scale<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The culmination of Dr. Monk\u2019s research is the <a href=\"http:\/\/skintone.google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monk Skin Tone (MST) Scale<\/a>, a 10-shade scale that will be incorporated into various Google products over the coming months. We\u2019re openly releasing the scale so anyone can use it for research and product development. Our goal is for the scale to support inclusive products and research across the industry \u2014 we see this as a chance to share, learn and evolve our work with the help of others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/crD1tzTlE4o\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/search\/monk-skin-tone-scale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re introducing a next step in our commitment to image equity and improving representation across our products. In partnership with Harvard professor and sociologist Dr. Ellis Monk, we\u2019re releasing a new skin tone scale designed to be more inclusive of the spectrum of skin tones we see in our society. Dr. Monk has been studying how skin tone and colorism affect people\u2019s lives for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,842],"tags":[240,17439,11058,33517,33518,33516,33515],"class_list":["post-63825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-videos","tag-colorism","tag-ellis-monk","tag-google","tag-monk-skin-tone-scale","tag-mst-scale","tag-real-tone-for-pixel","tag-tulsee-doshi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63853,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63825\/revisions\/63853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}