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Free Color Analysis: Find Your Color Season in 60 Seconds

Color analysis identifies which colors harmonize with your natural coloring — your skin undertone, natural hair color, and eye color. This tool sorts you along the three axes the 12-season system is built on: hue (warm or cool), value (light or deep), and chroma (soft or clear). Answer eleven questions and you get your season, a twelve-color palette with hex codes, the shades to avoid with a swap for each, and the season you are closest to on the border.

Find your color season

Eleven questions about your skin, hair, and eyes. It runs entirely in your browser — no account, no photo upload, nothing sent to a server. You will get your season, a 12-color palette with hex codes, the colors to avoid, and your closest alternative season.

Takes about 60 seconds
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Tip: do the wrist, jewelry, and white-paper checks in daylight before you start. Indoor bulbs will skew your answers.

All 12 Color Season Palettes

Every one of the twelve seasons, with twelve hex codes each, the neutrals to build a wardrobe on, four colors to avoid with a substitute for each, and a makeup shorthand. Tap any swatch to copy its hex code. You may reuse these palettes freely — a link back to this page is appreciated.

Spring

Warm · light · clear

Light Spring

Dominant trait: Lightness · Warm · Light · Clear

Also called: Light Warm Spring

Your coloring is warm and clear, but lightness is the trait that leads — fair skin, light golden or honey hair, light warm eyes. Your palette stays in the top half of the value scale: nothing heavy, nothing dark, everything sun-warmed.

Avoid: Black (#000000) — wear Camel instead; Burgundy (#5C0F27) — wear Light Coral instead; Charcoal (#36454F) — wear Warm Light Gray instead; Icy Fuchsia (#FF00FF) — wear Warm Pink instead.

Makeup: Peach blush, warm coral-pink lip, light golden bronzer.

Warm Spring

Dominant trait: Warmth · Warm · Medium · Clear

Also called: True Spring, Pure Spring

Warmth is your dominant trait — distinctly golden skin, warm red or golden hair, warm eyes. Your palette is the sunniest of the twelve: everything is pulled toward yellow, and cool tones flatten you fast.

Avoid: Black (#000000) — wear Golden Tan instead; Dusty Rose (#C894A0) — wear Coral instead; Icy Lavender (#D8CDEE) — wear Warm Turquoise instead; Cool Gray (#8A8F96) — wear Warm Ivory instead.

Makeup: Warm peach blush, coral or warm red lip, golden bronzer.

Clear Spring

Dominant trait: Clarity · Warm · Medium · Clear

Also called: Bright Spring, Clear Warm Spring

Clarity leads: high contrast between your features, bright eyes, and clear skin, all on a warm base. Saturated color is what you wear best — muted and dusty shades read as dirt against your face.

Avoid: Muted Beige (#BFA078) — wear Bright Cream instead; Dusty Sage (#97A78E) — wear Emerald Green instead; Terracotta (#C97064) — wear Bright Coral instead; Muted Plum (#6E4F63) — wear Bright Violet instead.

Makeup: Clear coral blush, bright warm red or hot pink lip, minimal bronzer.

Summer

Cool · light · soft

Light Summer

Dominant trait: Lightness · Cool · Light · Soft

Also called: Light Cool Summer

Lightness leads on a cool, gently muted base — very fair cool skin, ash blonde hair, soft blue or gray eyes. Your palette reads like a watercolor wash: cool, light, and never heavy.

Avoid: Black (#000000) — wear Soft Navy instead; Orange (#F58231) — wear Rose instead; Mustard (#C9A227) — wear Cool Mint instead; Rust (#A94724) — wear Dusty Blue instead.

Makeup: Soft rose blush, cool pink lip, soft brown mascara, no bronzer.

Cool Summer

Dominant trait: Coolness · Cool · Medium · Soft

Also called: True Summer, Pure Summer

Coolness is your dominant trait — cool pink undertones, ash brown hair, cool gray or blue eyes. Your palette is blue-based and slightly softened: think berry, slate, and cool rose rather than anything golden.

Avoid: Orange (#F58231) — wear Raspberry instead; Mustard (#C9A227) — wear Cool Sage instead; Pure Black (#000000) — wear Cool Gray instead; Warm Camel (#C19A6B) — wear Cocoa instead.

Makeup: Rose or plum blush, cool berry lip, cool-toned contour.

Soft Summer

Dominant trait: Softness · Cool · Medium · Soft

Also called: Muted Summer

Muting is your dominant trait — low-contrast coloring, dusty hair, and features that blend rather than separate. Your palette is cool but grayed down; saturated color overpowers you before it flatters you.

Avoid: Pure Black (#000000) — wear Slate instead; Neon Green (#39FF14) — wear Soft Teal instead; Bright Orange (#F58231) — wear Dusty Rose instead; Pure White (#FFFFFF) — wear Pewter instead.

Makeup: Muted rose blush, soft mauve or berry lip, no high-contrast eye.

Autumn

Warm · deep · soft

Soft Autumn

Dominant trait: Softness · Warm · Medium · Soft

Also called: Muted Autumn

Your coloring is warm, but the muting is what leads — soft brown or dark blonde hair, hazel or green eyes, blended features. That softness is exactly what separates you from Warm Autumn, which carries the same warmth at higher saturation.

Avoid: Pure Black (#000000) — wear Golden Brown instead; Pure White (#FFFFFF) — wear Ivory instead; Icy Blue (#B0E0E6) — wear Soft Teal instead; Fuchsia (#FF00FF) — wear Dusty Rose instead.

Makeup: Soft terracotta blush, warm nude or muted brick lip, light bronzer.

Warm Autumn

Dominant trait: Warmth · Warm · Medium · Soft

Also called: True Autumn, Pure Autumn

Rich golden warmth is your dominant trait — auburn or copper hair, warm brown or amber eyes, skin with a golden cast. Your palette is the spice rack: rust, pumpkin, olive, bronze, forest.

Avoid: Icy Pink (#F2C9DA) — wear Pumpkin instead; Pure Black (#000000) — wear Warm Brown instead; Cool Fuchsia (#C2185B) — wear Brick Red instead; Silver Gray (#A9AFB6) — wear Golden Tan instead.

Makeup: Terracotta blush, warm brick or brown-nude lip, bronze eye.

Deep Autumn

Dominant trait: Depth · Warm · Deep · Soft

Also called: Dark Autumn, Deep Warm Autumn

Depth leads on a warm base — deep brown or black-brown hair, dark eyes, rich overall coloring. Your palette lives in the bottom half of the value scale, warmed with amber and bronze rather than iced with blue.

Avoid: Pastel Pink (#F7A8B8) — wear Deep Tomato instead; Icy Blue (#C9DCEA) — wear Dark Teal instead; Light Gray (#C9CBD1) — wear Warm Sand instead; Neon Yellow (#FFD400) — wear Amber Gold instead.

Makeup: Warm bronze blush, deep brick or spiced-berry lip, bronze or copper eye.

Winter

Cool · deep · clear

Deep Winter

Dominant trait: Depth · Cool · Deep · Clear

Also called: Dark Winter, Deep Cool Winter

Depth leads on a cool, clear base — very dark coloring, black or near-black hair, dark brown eyes. Your palette is the deepest of the twelve, lifted by a small number of icy accents rather than pastels.

Avoid: Camel (#C19A6B) — wear Charcoal instead; Peach (#FFCBA4) — wear Icy Blue instead; Mustard (#C9A227) — wear Deep Emerald instead; Dusty Sage (#A0A889) — wear Pine Teal instead.

Makeup: Cool berry blush, deep berry or true-red lip, high-contrast eye.

Cool Winter

Dominant trait: Coolness · Cool · Deep · Clear

Also called: True Winter, Pure Winter

Stark coolness is your dominant trait — dark ash hair, cool pink or olive skin, icy eyes. Your palette is blue-based and saturated: true blue, royal purple, cool ruby, and icy pastels.

Avoid: Orange (#F58231) — wear Cool Ruby instead; Mustard (#C9A227) — wear Icy Lavender instead; Warm Camel (#C19A6B) — wear Silver Gray instead; Terracotta (#C97064) — wear Magenta instead.

Makeup: Cool pink blush, true-red or fuchsia lip, silver-toned eye.

Clear Winter

Dominant trait: Clarity · Cool · Deep · Clear

Also called: Bright Winter, Clear Cool Winter

You carry the highest contrast of the twelve seasons — dark hair against lighter skin, bright striking eyes. Clarity leads: your palette is pure, saturated color with black and white as anchors, and muted shades read as dull on you.

Avoid: Warm Beige (#BFA078) — wear Bright White instead; Olive (#7A7E4A) — wear Emerald instead; Rust (#A94724) — wear True Red instead; Dusty Rose (#C894A0) — wear Hot Pink instead.

Makeup: Clear cool-pink blush, true red or bright fuchsia lip, defined dark eye.

How This Color Analysis Works

This is a self-report questionnaire, not a photo AI. Nothing is uploaded and no image is analyzed. It is built to the standard 12-season hue / value / chroma specification, which derives from the Munsell color system — the documented basis of the Sci\ART 12-tone method. Your eleven answers each carry a signed weight on three axes; those weights are summed, normalized, and read deterministically. The same answers always produce the same season.

The three axes

Hue (undertone) — Cool vs Warm. Whether your skin, hair, and eyes sit on a golden-yellow base or a blue-pink base. The wrist vein test, the gold-versus-silver jewelry test, and the white paper test all read this axis.
Value — Light vs Deep. How light or deep your coloring is overall. This is independent of undertone: every skin depth appears in all four seasons.
Chroma — Soft vs Clear. Whether your coloring is bright and high-contrast or muted and blended. The clarity of your iris pattern is the most reliable read on this axis.

The three DIY tests the quiz is built on

Vein test. In daylight, blue or purple veins lean cool; green or olive veins lean warm.
Jewelry test. Hold gold and silver against bare skin. Gold flattering means warm, silver flattering means cool.
White paper test. Against bright white paper, skin that reads yellow or peachy is warm; skin that reads pink or slightly blue is cool.

Every one of these has an honest “I can't tell” option worth zero. The quiz never forces a guess, because a forced guess on undertone is the single largest source of a wrong result.

Step 1 — your parent season

The sign of your hue score and the sign of your chroma score determine the parent season.

The four parent seasons and their hue, value, and chroma profile
Season	Undertone	Value	Chroma
Spring	Warm	Light	Clear
Summer	Cool	Light	Soft
Autumn	Warm	Deep	Soft
Winter	Cool	Deep	Clear

Step 2 — your sub-season is your dominant trait

Within a parent season, whichever axis is strongest in your answers names your sub-season. An axis only qualifies if its direction matches the season — value can only be dominant for a Spring or Summer if it leans light, and only for an Autumn or Winter if it leans deep.

The twelve sub-seasons, their parent season, and the dominant trait that defines each
Sub-season	Parent	Dominant trait	Hue / Value / Chroma
Light Spring	Spring	Lightness	Warm / Light / Clear
Warm Spring	Spring	Warmth	Warm / Medium / Clear
Clear Spring	Spring	Clarity	Warm / Medium / Clear
Light Summer	Summer	Lightness	Cool / Light / Soft
Cool Summer	Summer	Coolness	Cool / Medium / Soft
Soft Summer	Summer	Softness	Cool / Medium / Soft
Soft Autumn	Autumn	Softness	Warm / Medium / Soft
Warm Autumn	Autumn	Warmth	Warm / Medium / Soft
Deep Autumn	Autumn	Depth	Warm / Deep / Soft
Deep Winter	Winter	Depth	Cool / Deep / Clear
Cool Winter	Winter	Coolness	Cool / Deep / Clear
Clear Winter	Winter	Clarity	Cool / Deep / Clear

Step 3 — confidence and your closest alternative

We compare the strength of your dominant trait against your second strongest. A wide gap gives a strong match; a narrow gap means you are a flow type sitting between two seasons, and the result says so rather than pretending otherwise. Your closest alternative season is always shown, because that is the comparison that actually settles a borderline case in front of a mirror.

Where the palettes come from

There is no canonical public hex set for the twelve seasons — the definitive swatch books belong to proprietary systems (Sci\ART, House of Color, 12 Blueprints) and are not published as hex values. These are our reference palettes: the Soft Autumn set is largely drawn from published sources, each other season includes the published anchor hexes for that season, and the remaining codes were constructed to sit inside that season's documented hue / value / chroma envelope. They are not, and we do not claim they are, official swatch-book colors. They are accurate enough to shop and build a wardrobe from.

What this tool cannot do

It cannot see you. A questionnaire is only as good as your own assessment of your coloring, and undertone is the step people most often misjudge. Professional draping tests your face against calibrated fabric under controlled light, and nothing on a web page replaces that. Treat your result as a hypothesis and test it in daylight against your closest alternative.

Sources

Want the longer explanation, including how AI-based color analysis differs from a questionnaire? Read the full 12-season color analysis guide.

Color Analysis FAQ

Color analysis is a method of identifying which colors harmonize with your natural coloring — your skin undertone, natural hair color, and eye color. It sorts people along three dimensions borrowed from the Munsell color system: hue (warm or cool), value (light or deep), and chroma (soft or clear). Those three axes produce four parent seasons and twelve sub-seasons.

A questionnaire like this one is a strong starting point, not a substitute for draping. It relies entirely on how accurately you assess your own coloring, and self-assessment of undertone is the step people most often get wrong. Professional draping tests your face against calibrated fabric under controlled light, which a quiz cannot replicate. Use your result as a hypothesis, then test it: hold your palette's colors and your closest-alternative season's colors against your bare face in daylight and see which one makes your skin look clearer.

No. This tool asks you eleven questions and runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on our servers, and you don't need an account.

Light Spring, Warm Spring, Clear Spring, Light Summer, Cool Summer, Soft Summer, Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn, Deep Autumn, Deep Winter, Cool Winter, and Clear Winter. Each is defined by which of the three axes is most dominant in your coloring — for example, Soft Autumn is warm, but its muting is the strongest trait, which is what separates it from Warm Autumn.

Both are muted and low-contrast, which is why they're the most commonly confused pair. The difference is undertone: Soft Summer is cool-leaning (rose, slate, mauve, cool sage), Soft Autumn is warm-leaning (camel, olive, terracotta, mustard). If both palettes look plausible, the tiebreaker is usually how you look in warm camel versus cool gray.

No. Your season is based on your natural, undyed coloring. Dye, tanning, and makeup change how you appear but not which palette actually harmonizes with your skin's underlying undertone. Answer the hair question with your natural color, and do the undertone tests on skin that isn't tanned.

Yes. Every skin depth appears across all four seasons — season is determined by undertone, contrast, and chroma, not by how light or deep your skin is. Deep skin tones frequently fall in Deep Winter or Deep Autumn, but Clear Spring, Warm Autumn, and Cool Winter are all common. This is why the contrast question includes an option for coloring that is uniformly deep rather than high-contrast.

No, and no free tool's are. The canonical swatch books belong to proprietary systems (Sci\ART, House of Color, 12 Blueprints) and aren't published as hex values. These palettes are our reference set, built to the standard 12-season hue/value/chroma specification and cross-checked against published seasonal palettes. They're accurate enough to shop and build a wardrobe from.

Yes, freely. Every swatch is click-to-copy and you can export any palette as an image. If you publish something using them, a link back to this page is appreciated.

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