Universal Principles of Design, Updated and Expanded Third Edition
by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler
060 Face-ism Ratio
The ratio of face to body in an image that influences how the person is perceived.
Images depicting a person with a high face-ism ratio — the face takes up most of the image — focus attention on the person’s intellectual and personality attributes. Images depicting a person in a low face-ism ratio — the body takes up most of the image — focus attention on the physical and sensual attributes of the person. Irrespective of gender, people rate individuals in high face-ism images as being more intelligent, dominant, and ambitious than individuals in low face-ism images.1
The term face-ism originated from research on gender bias in the media. It was found that images of men in magazines, movies, and other media have significantly ...
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