About Color Analysis Scan

Why this exists

Search for your color season and you can get three answers from three tools. That isn’t surprising. A photo isn’t a measurement, because color balance shifts every pixel with the light and the camera’s guess at it. Even the people who sell in-person sessions make this point: House of Colour writes that skin tone, hair color and drapes “never look exactly the same on camera”, and that’s a fair warning even though it has sessions to sell.

So we built tools that try to do something about it: a sheet of white paper to correct for the light, then your colors shown beside your own portrait, so your eyes can check what the camera read. That doesn’t make a season a scientific fact. It has a long and contested history, and we say so across the site. We think it’s still a useful way of looking at yourself.

Who makes it

A small independent project. Our pages say “Editorial team” rather than naming an expert, because we won’t put an invented name or an invented certificate on them. No trained color analyst has reviewed our palettes or guides. We draft with the help of AI writing tools, and we check what we publish against the sources listed on each page. The legal operator of the site is named on the privacy page and in the terms.

The free tools are code running in your browser. They don’t use a person, and they don’t call an AI model on a server. The methodology page has the formulas.

How it makes money

Right now it doesn’t. The scan, the quiz and the palettes with their hex codes are free, and they’re meant to stay that way. We carry no ads and no affiliate links today.

The plan is one paid product: a Full Color Report at $19, one time, with no subscription. It isn’t available yet. If you press its button, we tell you that and offer to email you when it’s ready, and no payment is asked for or taken. We count those clicks and signups to see whether it’s worth building, and the privacy page lists what we collect. Nobody has bought it, because nobody can, and the sample report is an example made for a fictional person.

How we write

• A factual claim needs a source we opened. If we couldn’t open it, we drop the claim or say so on the page.
• Prices and app details carry the date we read them.
• An estimate says it’s an estimate where the number appears.
• When we compare ourselves with other tools, we say where they’re better, and we stick to what they state themselves.
• We don’t assign a season or undertone by ethnicity, and our tools have no such input.

What isn’t done

The biggest gap: we haven’t tested the scan on real people. Our numbers come from a simulation on fictional portraits, deep skin is the weakest evidence we have, and the palettes haven’t had a professional’s review. We’d rather you read that here than find it out. The full list of limits is on the methodology page.

When we get something wrong

Write to hello@coloranalysisscan.com with the page and what’s wrong, plus a source if you have one. We’ll check it. If we were wrong, we fix the page and change its updated date. The contact page has more on what to send. Meanwhile, the guides are a good place to find out what else we’ve said.