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Kibbe body type test
Eight questions about bone structure, flesh and facial features. They score three yin–yang readings and place you among thirteen types. No photograph, no measurements you cannot take in front of a mirror, and every weight is shown to you.
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Your result
The Dossier · $19
The reading above is free, including which of the thirteen types you came out as. What $19 buys is the rest of the picture: a body type on its own is not what anyone actually needs, because what to do with it depends on your coloring and your face as much as your frame.
- Your color season, your face shape and your skin undertone alongside the type above
- The complete reasoning table — every question, every axis, every weight
- How the four cross: line and proportion read against your palette and your face
- A permanent private link to it that keeps improving as the guides do
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What the eight questions measure
Three blocks, each scored on one yin–yang axis from −3 to +3. Positive is yang. Every question feeds exactly one block, which is what makes a result traceable: each answer moves one axis by a known amount and nothing else.
Bone structure — Small and rounded against Long and sharp
- Vertical impression versus measured height
- Shoulder line
- Bone volume at wrists, hands and feet
Flesh — Soft and curved against Lean and straight
- Upper-body flesh
- Lower-body flesh
Facial features — Round and full against Narrow and sculpted
- Eye shape and size
- Lip fullness
- Facial bone structure
Unlike the color axes, zero is a real position here rather than an absence: balanced on all three blocks is precisely what Classic means.
The thirteen types, and where each one sits
This is the whole table the engine matches against — no part of it is hidden. Your answers score three numbers, and the type nearest to them wins.
| Type | Bone structure | Flesh | Facial features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dramatic | +3 | +3 | +3 |
| Soft Dramatic | +3 | −2 | −2 |
| Flamboyant Natural | +2 | +2 | +1 |
| Natural | +1 | +1 | +1 |
| Soft Natural | +2 | −1 | −1 |
| Flamboyant Gamine | −1 | +3 | +3 |
| Gamine | −2 | +1 | +1 |
| Soft Gamine | −3 | −1 | −1 |
| Dramatic Classic | +3 | 0 | +2 |
| Classic | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Soft Classic | 0 | −1 | −1 |
| Theatrical Romantic | −1 | −3 | −1 |
| Romantic | −3 | −3 | −3 |
These coordinates are our own calibration, not a published rubric. The taxonomy — the thirteen names and the yin–yang idea behind them — is not ours. Where each type sits on these three numbers is a judgement we made, checked against profiles written independently of the table, and it is the part of this test most likely to be wrong. We would rather print it than imply an authority we do not have.
What high, medium and low mean
Confidence here is about the stability of the decision, not about how neatly you fit a type. A set of answers can land exactly on a type and still be one answer away from a different one, and calling that certainty would be dishonest.
| Grade | What it means |
|---|---|
| High | No single answer, moved one step up or down, changes the result. |
| Medium | At least one adjacent answer would change it — you are sitting on a border. |
| Low | Two types sit exactly the same distance from your answers, or nothing in the table is close enough to your reading to be called a fit, or every answer was the middle option. The page says which. |
What this test does not do
It does not look at a photograph, and it does not weigh or measure you. Every question is something you can check about yourself in a mirror and check again next month — that is a deliberate constraint, not a missing feature. It also asks nothing about your height in centimetres; what it asks is whether you read longer or shorter than the tape says, which is the thing the taxonomy actually turns on.
The thirteen names come from a published system. The questions, the option wording and the scoring are written from scratch for this site; none of it is transcribed or paraphrased from the source book.