Are my eyes wide set or close set?

Intercanthal distance measured in eye-widths, against the classical rule.

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Intercanthal distance divided by the width of one eye. Measured on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

What this measures

Eye spacing is measured as the distance between the inner corners of the eyes divided by the width of one eye. The classical rule is that the two should be equal — the eyes sit one eye-width apart — so the target is 1.0 and the measurement is immediately legible: 1.2 means your eyes sit a fifth of an eye further apart than the convention, and 0.85 means they sit closer. Both are common. The measurement is taken after the face is levelled by the eye line, and it is normalised by eye width rather than by any absolute distance, so it does not change with how close you stood to the camera. Unlike most measurements on this site, this one barely moves with weight, expression or age, which makes it one of the more stable numbers here and a reasonable one to compare between photographs taken years apart.

How to read this

1.0 is the classical rule: eyes one eye-width apart.
Above 1.0 is wide-set, below is close-set. Most faces land between 0.85 and 1.2.
The number is normalised by your own eye width, so camera distance does not affect it.
This is the most stable measurement on the site — it barely moves with weight or expression.

Intercanthal distance divided by the width of one eye.

Close set 0 – 0.85: Inner corners sit closer than one eye-width apart.
Classical 0.85 – 1.05: Within the one-eye-width convention.
Wide set 1.05 – 1.25: A common variation, often read as a distinctive feature rather than a flaw.
Strongly wide set 1.25 – 3: Well beyond the convention. Check the photo is square-on to the lens.

Method

Every measurement here comes from 478 facial landmarks detected by Google's MediaPipe face mesh, running as WebAssembly in your browser. The face is levelled by the eye line before anything is measured, and every distance is normalised so the result does not depend on your camera or how close you stood to it.

Questions

What is the ideal distance between the eyes?

The convention is one eye-width, which is a drawing rule rather than a finding. Measured populations spread on either side of it, and neither direction is associated with anything in particular beyond how the face is described.

Can eye spacing be changed?

No. The distance is set by the orbital bones and does not respond to anything non-surgical. What changes the perception is the brow, the bridge of the nose and where hair sits — all of which affect how far apart the eyes look without moving them.

Is wide-set or close-set better?

Neither. Both appear across every population and both are common among faces rated highly. The measurement is included because it is well defined and stable, not because one end of it is preferable.

Measure something else

The app scores the eye area as a whole, spacing included, and tracks it across scans.