FACE FORM FINDER · 8 OCTOBER 2026
Nose Bridge
The tables below are built from group readings taken elsewhere and from three lengths already set out on this site's nose chart. The arithmetic is left visible so it can be repeated. A number here is a reading, not a score, and nothing on this page says which bridge looks better.
The angle, and what it is taken between
The bridge is not measured as a distance. It is measured as an angle at the top of it, where the forehead meets the bridge line. The corner sits at the point between the eyes where the two bones meet, and the two arms of the angle run up the forehead and down the bridge.
Two ways of drawing the upper arm are in use. One takes a line tangent to the brow between the eyes; the other takes the straight line from that point up to the brow ridge. Both are written as the same angle.
This is the reading of the bridge that has group numbers behind it. A width across the bridge in millimetres does not have group numbers behind it, which is why this page is built on the angle.
The readings, group by group
| Group | n | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|---|
| University students, Turkey | 115 (56 men, 59 women) | 123.85° ± 13.23 median 122.50, range 83–150 | 133.16° ± 8.88 median 133.00, range 114–148 |
| Adults, Curitiba, Brazil (white) | 100 | men lower than women, p = 0.0008; group mean 137.13° | |
| Pooled analysis, 38 groups, African against white | — | African men 8.1° lower (95% CrI 2.2–13.5) | white women 8.5° higher (90% CrI 0.6–15.9) |
These are measured angles, not worked-out ones. Each figure carries the group it came from, and the two ranges below are applied to them rather than derived from them. Readings collected 8 October 2026.
The pooled analysis adds one thing the group means do not. Its own note ties the angle to the shape it measures: the angle is affected by where the top point sits and by how far the tip comes out, and a lower reading may reflect a more slanted bridge. That is the line in the group material that connects the number back to the bridge itself.
Two ideal ranges, and where one bridge falls
Two ranges are in use for what this angle should read. They overlap, but they disagree about where the top of the range sits.
| Measured bridge | 115–130° | 127–141° |
|---|---|---|
| 123.85° (Turkish men) | inside | below the floor by 3.15° |
| 133.16° (Turkish women) | above the ceiling by 3.16° | inside |
| 137.13° (Curitiba) | above the ceiling by 7.13° | inside |
Each figure in the two right-hand columns is a subtraction on the numbers in the same row, and on nothing else. The floor of the second range is 127°, so 123.85° sits 3.15° under it. The ceiling of the first is 130°, so 137.13° sits 7.13° over it.
Read one row across and the same measured bridge is inside a range on one side and outside a range on the other. That is not a rounding difference. It is two ranges set at different times on different faces, and both are still in use. Both ranges were in use on 8 October 2026.
The strip one range calls normal and the other has left
The two ranges overlap only from 127° to 130°. Below 127° the first range stands alone; above 130° the second stands alone. So the disagreement is not a detail at the edges: the two share a strip three degrees wide and then part for good.
Above 130° that strip runs to 141°, and it is eleven degrees wide. A bridge measured at 135° is not near a boundary; it is a bit under halfway up a band that one range claims as normal and the other has already left.
The reading that lands in that band in the table above is the women's mean of the Turkish group, at 133.16°. So the band is not an edge case. It holds the ordinary reading of a whole group, and a page using the first range would call that mean too flat.
The same bridge from three lengths already on this site
The nose chart on this site carries three lengths taken from the same point between the eyes: down to the base of the nose, out to the tip, and from the base of the nose to the tip. Those three make a triangle, and the corner of that triangle at the top is the angle the bridge line makes with the vertical.
| Group | Down to the base | Out to the tip | Base to tip | Angle at the top |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akan (n = 116) | 44.56 mm | 33.88 mm | 13.11 mm | 11.23° |
| Ewe (n = 86) | 45.03 mm | 36.32 mm | 14.42 mm | 16.34° |
This corner is worked out, not measured. The three lengths are group means, so the corner they give is the corner of a model triangle rather than the angle of any one person. It is worked out with the cosine rule on the three means. The same three means give 30.22° at the base and 138.55° at the tip for the first group, and those three corners add to 180°, which is the check that the triangle closes. The three lengths carry the same 8 October 2026 reading date as the nose chart.
The two groups differ on this corner by 5.11° while differing by 0.47 mm on the length down to the base. The second group's bridge leans further from the vertical on a face whose bridge is, if anything, slightly longer.
Why the two angles are not interchangeable
The angle in this last table and the angle in the first table are both taken at the same point between the eyes, and both describe how the bridge leans, but their second arms are different lines. One runs up the forehead; the other runs down to the base of the nose.
Because the arms differ, one figure cannot be turned into the other by a fixed rule. An 11° or 16° bridge angle is not a nasofrontal angle with 180° taken away, and it should not be read as one. What the two have in common is only this: they are two different rulers laid on the same bridge, and they do not give one answer.
Is there a single normal nose bridge angle?
No. The two ranges above are both in use, and above 130° they point in opposite directions. A page that gives one normal figure is using one of the two ranges and leaving the other out.
Does the angle change with the size of a face?
It is an angle, so the size of the head drops out of it. Two faces of very different widths can give the same corner. What does change with size is a distance across the bridge in millimetres, and that is the reading this page does not use.
Related guides
- Nose Shape Chart — the three lengths this page works the bridge angle from, and the nasal index beside them.
- Brow Thickness — another reading where two bands are in use and do not touch.
- Canthal Tilt — an angle read on the eye, taken as one length over another on the same photograph.
- Face Shape Chart — the widths and the length that build a face shape.