Color analysis palettes: all 12 seasons with hex codes

All twelve on one wall

Every color from every palette, generated from the same data as the season pages, with each column running light to dark. Reading across shows you what no single board can: where the seasons really part. Tap a swatch to copy its hex code.

What the numbers say, and what they don’t

Color analysts describe seasons on the three dimensions Munsell used: hue, lightness and strength. That lets us measure our own palettes instead of just describing them.

This describes the palettes we built, not people, so ignore small gaps. The bigger point is that other publishers’ versions of these seasons differ from ours, and from each other. A season is a styling convention, so there isn’t one true Soft Autumn list to match.

Which palette is mine?

You can’t tell from the colors alone, because nearly everyone likes the look of some palette that doesn’t suit them. What helps is seeing colors under your face. The scan starts with a reading of your face and asks you to compare colors beside your photo. The chart shows how the twelve connect, and if you know your family already, its page compares the three inside.

Comparing two seasons

Pick a trait first. Neighboring seasons usually share two traits and differ on one, so most confusion comes down to one question about temperature, depth or softness. Our comparison pages take the most common pairs one at a time, starting with Soft Summer against Soft Autumn, where the split is almost entirely temperature.

Using the hex codes

Copy them for a moodboard, a phone wallpaper or a design project, and use them however you like. Don’t expect a shop’s fabric to match one exactly, though: a garment’s color changes with its material and the light, and a screen shows it differently again. And if you came here looking for a tool that pulls a palette out of a picture, that’s a different thing, sometimes also called color palette analysis, and we don’t offer it.