What did Tipu Sultan look like?
It doesn't matter about complexion but it was in the interest of the British to mock him and to make him shorter, fatter, smaller and darker (typical racist caricature of a Hindustani) but the eye witness accounts clearly state that he wasn't.
Tipu as about five feet eight inches tall. ‘He had a short neck, square shoulders, and was rather corpulent: his limbs were small, particularly his feet and hands; he had large full eyes, small arched eyebrows, and an aquiline nose; his complexion was fair, and the general expression of his countenance, not void of dignity'.
The "non-British" eye witness Accounts from his young age to his life state that he was very active, studios and practiced his arts diligently so there is no way he was "rather corpulent" as the British claim with that amount of physical activity, he was extremely well versed in wrestling & sword fighting and sometimes participating with multiple opponents. I have read eye witness Accounts of his sword and wrestling duels and practices and noway he was fat!
But he even the racist British didn't go as far to call him "dark skinned", not that it mattered what complexion of skin he was but he wasn't dark skinned.