I have skin tone colour palette but I can not distinguish which one is base color, shades, etc. May help me little bit?
thank you.
While I don’t paint people, so I don’t need a palette like this, I would choose a medium shade as my base shade to have a variation of light and shadow cast on each skin type that I can use. I find the small selection of scales interesting, though I would naturally jump between them since they are so close.
Michelist
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Are there any facilities/utilities for reordering and rearranging palettes, maybe by hue or value or in some defined way?
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As far as I know, there aren’t such tools, one has to re-order them by copying them one by one into a better orientation.
Michelist
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a skintone palette does not include the shading, all of them are supposed to be different shades of skincolour, although i don’t really understand what the pinks are for either… i recommend possibly looking for an alternative. there are a lot of skintone palettes that might work better for you
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Pale skin with sunburn? It happens to me.
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In case it’s useful to anyone, I found a ‘tints and shades’ generator. Example:
Color Shades Generator (Free Online Tool)
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As @Michelist said:
choose a medium shade as my base shade to have a variation of light and shadow cast on each skin type that I can use.
I like to use the advanced color selector.
(The circled area was for something else, don’t worry about that) I mostly just use that bottom line area for adjusting my lights and darks.
although i don’t really understand what the pinks are for either…
Some people have rather pinkish skin tones, so that’s what that’s for.
It’s good to gather many photos of people in different lighting and pick the skin tones from that to study how they vary. 
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Honestly I would not even use that skin tone palette at all. Since the base color and shade seems to be limited. Since there seem to be a lot more off white skin tone options too.
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I black out all the off white options, Since the only use for the off white is camera light/sunlight option maybe)
This skin palette might be good for comics/webtoon since coloring is more simpler but not for illustration pieces.
Illustrations pieces usually depends more on the background colors to figure out what is the shade,base, and highlight of the skin color
Though factor in wise it depends on the art style too.
I’m not a expert in color theory/skin tone yet.
so I recommend watching so YouTube videos and reading some articles on skin tones/color theory.
Recommend this video
This option is a pay option but It seem like it has alot of good knowledge on skin/color theory.
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I liked this explanation of skin tones:
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so all of those are base colours…
When I was still drawing a lot of Anime people I used them to draw blushing or veins and indicate subsurface scattering; sometimes makeup or when someone has bruises or a literal pink eye.
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Basically, yes. Shading color depends on ambient and bounce light color and intensity and depending on this shading can have all kinds of color.
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