The 12 Color Seasons: Find Your Personal Color Palette
Seasonal color analysis finds the colors that make your skin, hair and eyes look their best. It sorts every palette into twelve seasons, grouped into Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Here is how the system works, with a full palette guide for each season.
Three dimensions behind every season
Each of the 12 seasons is a different combination of three qualities. Knowing where you sit on each one narrows 12 seasons down to one or two.
Undertone
Warm or cool?
Warm palettes lean golden, peachy or olive-yellow; cool palettes lean pink, blue or red-violet. This is the biggest single driver of whether a color flatters you.
Depth
Light or deep?
How much light or dark your overall coloring carries. Light seasons look best in airy, pale shades; deep seasons carry dark, rich shades without being overwhelmed.
Chroma
Soft or bright?
How clear or muted your coloring is. Bright seasons suit clean, saturated colors; soft seasons suit dusty, blended ones that do not compete with a low-contrast face.
Four families, twelve seasons
The four families share a general feel, and each splits into three seasons that tilt toward light, warm, bright, cool, soft or deep. Open any season for its full 30-color palette.
Spring
Warm, fresh and light-to-bright. Spring palettes lean golden and clear, like new leaves and warm sunlight.
Summer
Cool, gentle and softened. Summer palettes lean blue-based and muted, like sea haze and soft evening light.
Autumn
Warm, rich and earthy. Autumn palettes lean golden-brown and muted-to-deep, like spice, moss and fallen leaves.
Winter
Cool, crisp and high-contrast. Winter palettes lean icy or jewel-toned, deep or vivid, like a clear night sky.
- Winter
Deep Winter
Dark, cool-neutral and crisp: jewel depths against icy highlights.
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Cool Winter
Icy, crisp and blue-based: true red, cobalt, fuchsia and arctic white.
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Bright Winter
Electric, saturated and high-contrast: vivid jewel color on crisp neutrals.
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How to find your season
- 01
Take the quiz
Ten questions about your veins, hair, eyes and how colors look near your face. It takes about two minutes.
- 02
Compare your top two
Open the palette pages for your result and its closest alternatives, and hold the colors up to your face in daylight.
- 03
Confirm with a drape
For the most precise answer, try fabrics in person or book a professional draping session.
A quiz is a guide, not a diagnosis; in-person draping is more precise.
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