Front view - Jaw, neck and lower face
Bigonial width
Jaw width at the corners as a percentage of cheekbone width. It distinguishes narrow, tapered jaws from wide, square ones; mid-range values keep the jaw in proportion with the cheekbones.
What counts as ideal
The ideal band differs by sex for this measurement: 87.50% to 91.50% for men and 83.70% to 88.40% for women. A reading anywhere inside the band scores a full 10.
Male ideal
87.50% to 91.50%
Female ideal
83.70% to 88.40%
How it is scored
Everything inside the band scores 10, and the penalty accelerates the further a reading falls outside it rather than dropping off a cliff at the edge. For the male band, the falloff is measured against bounds of 76.91% and 102.38%: a reading out at either of those has spent its full allowance and scores about 3. The curve keeps going past them, so an extreme reading still separates from a merely poor one.
Bigonial width is one of 67 measurements in the harmony pillar. No single measurement decides a face: each one contributes its own shortfall to a weighted mean, and one hopeless measurement costs a full measurement's worth and never more.
How 84 celebrities measure
Every profile in the library, measured from hand-placed landmarks and scored against the band for that person's sex and ancestry. Readings run from 78.56% to 99.27%, with a median of 87.08%. 26 of 84 land inside the ideal band.
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