Seasonal color analysis: 4 families, 12 seasons
Seasonal color analysis sorts your natural coloring into a season, and each season comes with colors that sit well next to your skin. This page explains the system and shows all 12.
How the system works
Seasonal color analysis compares three things about a person: undertone (whether the skin leans golden or pink), depth (how light or dark the skin, hair and eyes are together) and clarity (how strong or muted those colors are). Two answers on undertone and two on clarity give the four families: Spring is warm and clear, Summer is cool and soft, Autumn is warm and soft, Winter is cool and clear. Each family then splits into three seasons, named after the trait that stands out most, which makes 12. A Deep Autumn is an Autumn whose strongest trait is depth. A Light Summer is a Summer whose strongest trait is lightness. A neutral undertone sits between warm and cool and usually lands in a soft season, such as Soft Summer or Soft Autumn.
A tan does not change your undertone. Dyed hair does change what a photo shows, so a reading fits the hair you have now.
Which season am I?
Two neighbors can look alike. Deep Autumn and Deep Winter share their depth and differ only in undertone, so a guess from a mirror often lands on the wrong one. The free tool measures your undertone and names your family. The paid report names your season out of 12 and shows the colors on your own photo.
If you only want to know whether you are warm or cool, read what is my undertone.
Spring
Warm and bright. Spring colors have yellow in them and very little gray: coral, peach, warm aqua, fresh green.
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Light Spring
Light, warm and fresh. Peach and aqua, never heavy.
- light warm beige
- peach
- coral pink
- coral
- turquoise
- poppy red
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True Spring
Warm and clear. Sunny color with nothing gray in it.
- warm camel
- warm coral
- golden yellow
- poppy orange
- golden amber
- warm fuchsia
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Bright Spring
Warm and vivid. High contrast, clean brights.
- clear warm beige
- clear coral
- true turquoise
- hot pink
- clear purple
- fuchsia
Summer
Cool and soft. Summer colors have blue in them and a little gray: dusty rose, lavender, slate blue, soft navy.
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Light Summer
Light, cool and soft. Powder shades over stark white.
- powder blue-gray
- soft pink
- lavender
- cornflower blue
- soft raspberry
- amethyst
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True Summer
Cool and gentle. Blue based, slightly smoky.
- cool taupe
- dusty rose
- soft blue
- cranberry
- cobalt blue
- true red
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Soft Summer
Cool and muted. Dusty color with low contrast.
- soft gray taupe
- dusty rose
- soft teal
- muted teal
- dusty plum
- deep dusty rose
Autumn
Warm and muted. Autumn colors have yellow in them and some depth: rust, olive, mustard, chocolate brown.
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Soft Autumn
Warm and muted. Quiet earth shades, nothing sharp.
- warm taupe
- muted terracotta
- sage green
- rust
- pumpkin spice
- chestnut brown
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True Autumn
Warm and rich. Spice, moss and old gold.
- camel
- pumpkin
- golden mustard
- burnt orange
- forest green
- deep rust
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Deep Autumn
Deep and warm. Rust and pine next to espresso.
- espresso
- rust
- deep gold
- deep warm burgundy
- pine green
- emerald forest
Winter
Cool and clear. Winter colors have blue in them and strong contrast: black, pure white, emerald, fuchsia.
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Deep Winter
Deep and cool. Jewel color against true black.
- true black
- emerald
- burgundy
- ruby red
- royal blue
- true red
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True Winter
Cool and clear. Pure color, strong contrast.
- true black
- true red
- royal blue
- cobalt
- violet
- clear emerald
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Bright Winter
Cool and vivid. Icy lights with electric brights.
- true black
- true red
- royal blue
- violet
- turquoise
- vivid true red
How we place you
We read undertone, depth, clarity and contrast from your photo as numbers and pick the nearest season. How we measure has the method and its limits.