While fawn is a color, it’s also a small, timid deer, which describes this very traumatized character of mine perfectly. Note my use of “fawn” in regards to multiple meaning and association.Here the state of skin also gives insight on character.From my story “Where Summer Ends” featured in Strange Little Girls So unlike the smooth, red-brown ochre of her mother, which the sun had richened to a blessing.” Even at the cusp of autumn, an uneven tan clung to her skin like burrs. “Farah’s skin, always fawn, had burned and freckled under the summer’s sun. “He always looked as if he’d ran a mile, a constant tinge of pink under his tawny skin.” “A dazzling smile revealed the bronze glow at her cheeks.” As shown, there’s a difference between say, brown skin with warm orange-red undertones (Kelly Rowland) and brown skin with cool, jewel undertones (Rutina Wesley). Mentioning the undertones within a character’s skin is an even more precise way to denote skin tone.Pictured above: warm / earth undertones: yellow, golden, copper, olive, bronze, orange, orange-red, coral | cool / jewel undertones: pink, red, blue, blue-red, rose, magenta, sapphire, silver. Undertones are the colors beneath the skin, seeing as skin isn’t just one even color but has more subdued tones within the dominating palette.
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