Front view - Nose
Intercanthal to nasal width
Nostril width divided by the distance between the inner eye corners. The classical guideline has the nose base slightly wider than the space between the eyes, around 1.0 to 1.2 times.
What counts as ideal
The ideal band differs by sex for this measurement: 1.04 to 1.16 for men and 0.93 to 1.05 for women. A reading anywhere inside the band scores a full 10.
Male ideal
1.04 to 1.16
Female ideal
0.93 to 1.05
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 0.84 and 1.45: 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.
Intercanthal to nasal 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 0.83 to 1.41, with a median of 1.10. 32 of 84 land inside the ideal band.
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