What is my color season?
Your colour season is where your natural colouring lands on three axes — undertone (warm/cool), value (light/deep) and chroma (soft/bright). Those combine into 12 types: Light, True and Bright Spring; Light, True and Soft Summer; Soft, True and Deep Autumn; Deep, True and Bright Winter. Springs and Autumns are warm, Summers and Winters are cool; Summers and Autumns are muted, Springs and Winters are clear.
What You Get
- Step 1 — temperature: do gold jewellery and warm whites flatter you (warm), or silver and cool whites (cool)?
- Step 2 — value: is your overall colouring light, medium or deep when you squint at a photo of yourself?
- Step 3 — chroma: does your colouring look clear and saturated, or soft and blended?
- Warm + clear = Spring; cool + soft = Summer; warm + soft = Autumn; cool + clear = Winter.
- Each of the four families splits into three: a light/deep variant, a true variant and a soft/bright variant.
- The 'true' seasons are dominated by temperature; the others are dominated by depth or clarity.
- Neutral undertones sit on the boundaries — Soft Summer and Soft Autumn are the most commonly mistyped pair.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many color seasons are there?
- The modern system uses 12: Light, True and Bright Spring; Light, True and Soft Summer; Soft, True and Deep Autumn; Deep, True and Bright Winter. The older system used four, which is why two people with the same season can look wrong in the same colour.
- Can I find my color season from a photo?
- Yes — that's exactly what AI colour analysis does. It reads undertone, contrast and chroma from a natural-light selfie and returns a 12-season classification with a full palette.
- What if I'm between two seasons?
- Most people sit close to a boundary. In practice you use the overlap: the colours that appear in both palettes are your safest wardrobe core, and you treat the disputed shades as accents worn away from the face.
- Is colour analysis accurate for deep skin tones?
- It should be. Older 4-season systems handled deep and neutral colouring badly. A 12-season, photo-based reading measures depth and chroma directly, which is what makes it work across a much wider range of colouring.