Find your true colors
Most color-analysis tools ask for a selfie and hand back a confident answer. We don't, because the photo is the weak link: lighting, white balance, and filters all distort undertone before any analysis starts. A confident-looking result from a bad photo is still wrong, and there is no way to tell from the photo alone.
Instead we ask the questions a stylist would ask in person: the color of your veins in daylight, whether silver or gold sits better against your skin, how you react to sun, and the natural contrast between your hair, eyes, and skin. Eight questions, no upload. When your answers land clearly on one season, we say so. When they sit on a boundary between two, we say that too, and give you a simple test to settle it yourself. A different app or analyst may type you differently near one of those boundaries, and that disagreement is expected rather than a sign either tool is broken.
Those eight questions read three dimensions at once: undertone, whether your coloring is warm or cool underneath; depth, how light or dark it runs overall; and clarity, whether it reads soft and muted or bright and clear. Color analysts call the same three hue, value, and chroma. The difference is what we ask you to judge: concrete signals you can check in daylight, veins, metals, sun, and contrast, rather than asking you to decide for yourself whether your own coloring is muted or light, which is the step most quizzes fail on.
Your result opens onto the palette data behind it: 340 named colors across the twelve seasons, every hex traced to a published season source and cross-checked against a second one where sources disagreed.
The 12 seasons at a glance
Four families, each split three ways by depth and clarity. Three example colors from each palette, with the full guide behind every name.
Peach, Butter Yellow, Clear Sky Blue
Warm SpringCoral Red, Golden Yellow, Warm Turquoise
Bright SpringBright Coral, Bright Emerald, Cobalt
Light SummerPowder Blue, Soft Rose, Soft Mint
Cool SummerCornflower, Rose Pink, Cool Burgundy
Soft SummerDusty Rose, Soft Mauve, Silver Sage
Soft AutumnCamel, Terracotta, Sage Green
Warm AutumnRust, Olive Green, Golden Amber
Deep AutumnDeep Burgundy, Forest Green, Burnt Sienna
Bright WinterHot Pink, Electric Blue, Bright Emerald
Cool WinterTrue Red, Royal Blue, Emerald
Deep WinterBlack Cherry, Sapphire Blue, Pine Green
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Frequently asked questions
- What if my quiz answers don't lean clearly toward anything?
- You still get a season, but it arrives labelled as a low-confidence best guess with a second season next to it. The scoring keeps a weighted average on three axes, undertone, depth, and clarity, and then finds which of the twelve seasons sits closest to that point. When your answers land near the middle of every axis, several seasons end up almost equally close, and the size of that gap is what sets the confidence label. A narrow gap, or a lot of not-sure answers, caps the result at low confidence and returns an alternate season along with a daylight drape test between the two, because holding the two candidate colors against your face settles it faster than another question would. Being genuinely neutral on all three axes at once is rare, and a quiz that hides that by picking one season with total certainty is not being more accurate, only more confident.
- What if my signals point in different directions?
- Nothing breaks, because the quiz weighs the signals rather than requiring them to agree. Vein color and the gold-versus-silver check carry the most weight on undertone, the bright-white-versus-cream check comes next, and sun reaction is weighted lightest on purpose because it is the weakest signal on its own. Natural hair color carries the most weight on depth, and the skin-to-hair contrast check carries the most on clarity. When the signals genuinely disagree, the averages land nearer the middle, which is a real result rather than a failed test: mixed signals usually mean a neutral undertone. And if a color outside your palette reliably draws compliments, that is data, not noise. Fabric against real skin outranks any questionnaire, so put that color on the list of things worth drape-testing instead of explaining it away.
- Does this work for deeper skin tones, or is color analysis built for white women?
- It works across skin tones, because the four signals this quiz reads are physiological rather than cosmetic. Vein color, metal reaction, sun response, and the contrast between your skin, hair, and eyes all test temperature and contrast, not how deep your skin is. Depth and undertone are separate axes, so any depth of skin can land in any of the twelve seasons. Deep Autumn and Deep Winter describe the depth of the palette, not the color of the person wearing it, and very fair people test Deep regularly. The skepticism is earned, though, and worth saying plainly: the early color-analysis books and most of the marketing since used almost entirely light-skinned examples, which is why the system reads as built for one kind of face even where the underlying test is not.
- Why do different sites call my season something different?
- Because two naming schools describe the same twelve slots. The temperature-first school calls the four anchor seasons Warm Spring, Cool Summer, Warm Autumn, and Cool Winter; the older school calls those exact same seasons True Spring, True Summer, True Autumn, and True Winter. The same split runs through the variants: Deep Autumn is Dark Autumn elsewhere, Deep Winter is Dark Winter, Bright Spring is Clear Spring, and Bright Winter is Clear Winter. On top of the naming, sites disagree about how many slots there are at all: some still use the original four seasons, most use twelve, and a few split further into sixteen. We commit to the twelve-season system throughout, so a result someone else called True Autumn is our Warm Autumn, not a contradiction.