Martin–Schultz scale
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The Martin–Schultz scale is a standard color scale commonly used in physical anthropology to establish more or less precisely the eye color of an individual; it was created by the anthropologists Martin and Schultz in the first half of the 20th century. The scale consists of 16 colors (from light blue to dark brown-black) that correspond to the different eye colors observed in nature due to the amount of melanin in the iris:[1][2]
- 1-2 : blue iris (1a, 1b, 1c, 2a : light blue iris - 2b : darker blue iris)
- 3 : blue-gray iris
- 4 : gray iris
- 5 : blue-gray iris with yellow/brown spots
- 6 : gray-green iris with yellow/brown spots
- 7 : green iris
- 8 : green iris with yellow/brown spots
- 9-11 : light-brown iris
- 10 : hazel iris
- 12-13 : medium brown iris
- 14-15-16 : dark-brown and black iris
Notes
- ↑ Piquet-Thepot M.-M. - Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XII° Série, tome 3 fascicule 3, pg. 207,208 - (1968)
- ↑ http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bmsap_0037-8984_1968_num_3_3_1417
See also
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