Fwhr Photo Calculator
Facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR)
2.0000
Facial Proportion Calculator
Face length : face width
1.4615
Mouth width : nose width
1.4857
Cheekbone width : jaw width
1.1818
Face width : eye width (canon says 5)
4.3333
Spread of the three vertical thirds
1.5873 %
Golden ratio (phi)
1.618033989
Mean distance of the phi-compared ratios from phi
8.9249 %
Reading
Facial width-to-height ratio 2, as defined by Carre and McCormick (2008).
Worked out from Farkas LG. Anthropometry of the Head and Face. 2nd ed. Raven Press, 1994 - definitions of the standard craniofacial landmarks and the neoclassical canons (equal vertical thirds, the horizontal fifths) and 3 other sources.
This engine works from measurements, not from an uploaded image. Measure the face on your own photo - in any unit, including pixels - and enter the numbers.
Farkas measured real faces against the neoclassical canons and found most of them do not meet them. A deviation here is normal variation, not a defect.
Proportions only. This is arithmetic on measurements you take yourself: it cannot read a photograph, it does not score attractiveness, and no result here says anything about health, character or ancestry. Facial proportions near phi or near a neoclassical canon are a geometric coincidence, not a finding.
How this is worked out
6 steps
- Face length : face width = 190 / 130 = 1.461538.
- Mouth width : nose width = 52 / 35 = 1.485714.
- fWHR = bizygomatic width / upper-face height = 130 / 65 = 2 (Carre and McCormick 2008).
- Face width / eye width = 130 / 30 = 4.333333; the neoclassical canon expects 5.
- Vertical thirds 63, 64, 63: the largest exceeds the smallest by 1.5873%; the canon expects them equal.
- Mean absolute distance of the two phi-compared ratios from phi = 8.9249%.
Every ratio against its referencetable
| ratio | measured | reference | differencePercent | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Face length : face width | 1.461538 | 1.618034 | -9.672 | the proportion most often claimed to be golden |
| Mouth width : nose width | 1.485714 | 1.618034 | -8.1778 | the second of the two commonly cited golden facial proportions |
| Face width : eye width | 4.333333 | 5 | -13.3333 | Farkas neoclassical canon: the face is five eye-widths wide |
| Cheekbone width : jaw width | 1.181818 | 1.618034 | -26.9596 | compared to phi by convention only; there is no canon for it |
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