Front view - Jaw, neck and lower face
Neck width
Neck width as a percentage of jaw width at the corners. A neck close to jaw width reads proportionate; a much narrower neck reads slight and a much wider one heavy.
What counts as ideal
The ideal band differs by sex for this measurement: 92.00% to 98.00% for men and 72.50% to 81.40% for women. A reading anywhere inside the band scores a full 10.
Male ideal
92.00% to 98.00%
Female ideal
72.50% to 81.40%
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 76.10% and 107.51%: 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.
Neck 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 69.98% to 100.94%, with a median of 85.87%. 29 of 84 land inside the ideal band.
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