Side view - Chin and jaw

Recession relative to Frankfort

How far the chin sits ahead of or behind the vertical line through the nasal root (McNamara's nasion perpendicular), in millimeters, negative when behind. A few millimeters behind the line is typical; strongly negative values read as a recessed chin.

What counts as ideal

The ideal band is 1.5 mm to 15.0 mm for both men and women. A reading anywhere inside the band scores a full 10.

Ideal range

1.5 mm to 15.0 mm

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 -14.5 mm and 55.5 mm: 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.

Recession relative to Frankfort 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 -21.5 mm to 17.2 mm, with a median of -0.3 mm. 30 of 84 land inside the ideal band.

#	Name	Recession relative to Frankfort	Score
1	Alyssa Liu	6.1 mm	10.0
2	Ana de Armas	2.3 mm	10.0
3	Andrew Garfield	4.2 mm	10.0
4	Audrey Hepburn	3.5 mm	10.0
5	Barack Obama	2.6 mm	10.0
6	Charlie Kirk	3.9 mm	10.0
7	Chico Lachowski	1.8 mm	10.0
8	Chris Hemsworth	1.7 mm	10.0
9	Cillian Murphy	2.8 mm	10.0
10	Clavicular	5.2 mm	10.0
11	David Laid	6.7 mm	10.0
12	Doutzen Kroes	3.8 mm	10.0
13	Dylan Sprouse	4.1 mm	10.0
14	Henry Cavill	2.5 mm	10.0
15	Isabeau Levito	3.1 mm	10.0
16	J D Vance	6.7 mm	10.0
17	Jared Leto	3.0 mm	10.0
18	Lauren de Graaf	3.0 mm	10.0
19	Madison Beer	4.0 mm	10.0
20	Margot Robbie	4.8 mm	10.0
21	Matt Damon	6.0 mm	10.0
22	Olivia (Livvy) Dunne	6.1 mm	10.0
23	Ron Pearlman	5.8 mm	10.0
24	Sabrina Carpenter	1.8 mm	10.0
25	Sam Dezz (Samuel Dezzani)	5.4 mm	10.0
26	Selena Gomez	2.6 mm	10.0
27	Serena Williams	4.0 mm	10.0
28	Shawn Mendes	4.4 mm	10.0
29	Thomas Brodie-Sangster	3.0 mm	10.0
30	Zayn Malik	8.0 mm	10.0
31	Jeremy Meeks	1.5 mm	10.0
32	Zendaya	1.4 mm	10.0
33	Charles Leclerc	1.1 mm	10.0
34	Emma Stone	1.1 mm	10.0
35	Barbara Palvin Sprouse	1.0 mm	10.0
36	Kelly Slater	17.2 mm	9.9
37	Justin Bieber	0.6 mm	9.9
38	Michael Jackson	0.3 mm	9.8
39	Adriana Lima	-0.0 mm	9.4
40	Rachel McAdams	-0.3 mm	9.1
41	Dua Lipa	-0.3 mm	9.1
42	Amy Schumer	-0.3 mm	9.1
43	Grace Kelly	-0.4 mm	9.0
44	Billie Eilish	-0.4 mm	9.0
45	Machine Gun Kelly	-1.2 mm	8.9
46	Hayden Christensen	-1.3 mm	8.8
47	Vinnie Hacker	-1.5 mm	8.6
48	Robert Pattinson	-1.8 mm	8.3
49	Matt Bomer	-1.8 mm	8.3
50	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	-1.1 mm	8.0
51	Jon-Erik Hexum	-3.2 mm	6.4
52	Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson	-3.6 mm	5.6
53	Brooke Shields	-2.5 mm	5.3
54	Jahseh "XXXTentacion"	-3.9 mm	5.2
55	Megan Fox	-2.7 mm	4.7
56	Gavin Newsom	-4.2 mm	4.7
57	Ian Somerhalder	-4.3 mm	4.4
58	Max Verstappen	-4.3 mm	4.4
59	Taylor Hill	-2.9 mm	4.4
60	Anya Taylor-Joy	-3.1 mm	3.9
61	Tom Welling	-4.8 mm	3.5
62	Natalie Portman	-3.5 mm	3.0
63	Ryan Gosling	-5.4 mm	2.6
64	Gio Scotti	-4.0 mm	1.6
65	Kristin Kreuk	-4.1 mm	1.5
66	Jeff Bezos	-6.3 mm	0.9
67	Domhnall Gleeson	-6.5 mm	0.6
68	The Developer	-6.6 mm	0.3
69	Anne Hathaway	-4.7 mm	0.0
70	Adam Driver	-12.6 mm	0.0
71	Bella Ramsey	-12.7 mm	0.0
72	Benedict Cumberbatch	-14.9 mm	0.0
73	Brooke Monk	-9.4 mm	0.0
74	Chris Evans	-8.5 mm	0.0
75	Donald Trump	-8.3 mm	0.0
76	Eminem	-15.1 mm	0.0
77	Emma Watson	-7.5 mm	0.0
78	Glen Powell	-21.5 mm	0.0
79	Josh Hutcherson	-7.7 mm	0.0
80	Mark Zuckerberg	-10.4 mm	0.0
81	Sydney Sweeney	-6.2 mm	0.0
82	Taylor Swift	-15.2 mm	0.0
83	Timothée Chalamet	-14.8 mm	0.0
84	Tom Holland	-7.0 mm	0.0

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