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The growing interest of this technique required the development of new photosensitizers with better photo-features. This work reports the study of the potential of five nature-inspired amino-based flavylium compounds with different structural features as photosensitizers towards topical PDT. In terms of dark cytotoxicity the five pigments were tested towards confluent skin cells in both fibroblasts and keratinocytes. In the range of concentrations tested (6.3\u2013100\u00a0\u03bcM), keratinocytes were more prone to growth inhibition and the IC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> values for 5OH4\u2032NMe<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>, 7NEt<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>st4\u2032NMe<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> and 7NEt<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>4\u2032NH<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> were determined to be 47.3\u2009\u00b1\u20090.3\u00a0\u03bcM; 91.0\u2009\u00b1\u20090.8\u00a0\u03bcM and 29.8\u2009\u00b1\u20090.8\u00a0\u03bcM, respectively. 7NEt<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>4\u2032NMe<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>, 7NEt<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>st4\u2032NMe<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> and 7NEt<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>4\u2032NH<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> showed significant fluorescence quantum yields (from 3.40 to 20.20%) and production of singlet oxygen (<jats:sup>1<\/jats:sup>O<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>). These latter chromophores presented IC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> values of growth inhibition of keratinocytes between 0.9 and 1.5\u00a0\u00b5M, after 10\u00a0min of photoactivation with white light. This cellular damage in keratinocyte cells upon white light activation was accompanied with the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). It was also found that the compounds can induce damage by either type I (ROS production) or type II (singlet oxygen) PDT mechanism, although a higher cell survival was observed in the presence of <jats:sup>1<\/jats:sup>O<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub> quenchers. 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