Side Profile Analyzer

Face Mesh, the model behind the other tools on this site, expects to see both halves of a face. In a true side view it guesses, so this tool does not use it for the measurement. Instead an on-device segmentation model sorts every pixel of your photo into hair, face skin, neck, clothing or background, and the front edge of the face skin is your profile line.

The profile line is then read the way a clinician reads a silhouette: the nose tip is the most forward point of the mid-face, the subnasale is where the steep underside of the nose ends, the chin crease is the hollow between lower lip and chin, and the pogonion is the chin's front. The nose root and brow come from the hollow and the bulge above the nose. The points and angles are drawn back onto your photo so a misplaced point is visible rather than hidden inside a number.

Nothing leaves your device. If the outline cannot be traced — hair or a collar over it, a head that is not turned far enough, a busy background — the tool says so and measures nothing, rather than reporting angles from a guess.

The E-line (esthetic line) is a straight line from the tip of the nose to the front of the chin. Ricketts described a typical adult as having the upper lip a few millimetres behind it and the lower lip slightly closer to it. Photos have no millimetre scale, so this tool reports each lip's distance as a percentage of the nose-tip-to-chin length, with the reference bands converted accordingly.

A lip well in front of the line reads as full or protruding; well behind it, as flat or retruded. Both depend as much on the nose tip and chin that define the line as on the lips themselves — a prominent nose pushes the line out and makes the lips look set back, which is why the angle and the line are read together rather than separately.

Not one that survives scrutiny. Claims that the ideal profile has angles or segments in the ratio 1.618 trace back to the same facial-mask arguments that were tested against real faces and found wanting; the angles clinicians use come from measuring large groups of adults, and they vary with sex, age and ancestry. That is why the bands on this page are ranges described as typical, never as an ideal.

The tool reports a balance figure — the share of its measurements that fall inside their band — because it is easy to read, but it is a description of how typical the outline is, not how attractive it is. A profile outside several bands can be distinctive and harmonious; one inside all of them can be unremarkable.