Color analysis tools
Everything here runs in your browser and is free to use. Start from the question you actually have, because a single test can often answer it faster than the full scan.
Find your season
The full route: a reading of your coloring, then color pairs that let your eyes overrule it.
- Color analysisA camera or photo scan, white paper calibration, color rounds and your 12-season result.
- What season am I?Three axes narrow down your season, then color pairs beside your photo settle it.
- Color analysis quizQuestions about your natural coloring lead to a season and a runner-up, then color rounds beside your photo.
- Free color analysisThe photo route to your free result, and exactly what is free and what is paid.
Compare colors on your own face
For when you'd rather look than be told. These lean on your judgment, and that's their point.
One question about your skin
Undertone and depth, each on its own. Handy when a whole season is more than you need.
Before you buy
Shade families and live try-ons, for the purchases that are hard to return.
Which tool should you start with?
If you have no idea where you stand and can spare a few minutes with a sheet of printer paper, start with the full scan. It runs the longest route and the others are parts of it. Without a camera, or if you’d rather not use one, the quiz asks ten questions about your coloring, and it’s a weaker starting point because no answer sees your skin.
If you already have a season from somewhere else and doubt it, skip to the scan and hold that season’s colors under your chin. You don’t need another machine’s opinion so much as a good look.
What each one reads, and what you get
| Tool | Works from | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Full scan, what season am I | Camera with white paper, a photo or a sample person, then color pairs | A season, a runner-up, meters, six colors and one to avoid |
| Free color analysis | The same scan, set up for people arriving with a photo | The same result, plus a plain list of what’s free and what’s paid |
| Quiz | Ten answers. No picture. | A season and a runner-up, with an offer to check them on camera |
| Gold or silver | Live camera, a photo or a sample person | Gold and silver beside your face to compare. You judge, then it says what your pick points to. |
| What colors look good on me | The full scan’s route | Six colors to start with and one to avoid, tested on your own face |
| Undertone test | Warm and cool color rounds, two questions and your skin reading | Warm, cool, neutral or olive, and how each piece of evidence voted |
| Vein test | A picture of your wrist, and a tap on a vein | Blue, green or mixed. It’s a rough sign, and the page says why. |
| Skin tone test | Your skin reading | An estimated place on the Monk Skin Tone Scale |
| Foundation finder | Your skin reading and undertone evidence | A depth family and an undertone code. No brand shade match, because a camera can’t honestly give one. |
| Hair, lipstick | Live camera or a photo, with hair or lips recolored | A preview on your own face. Dye and lipstick will differ on the day. |
Why two tools can disagree
Each one looks at something different. The undertone test leans on color rounds, and the vein test on one wrist in one light, so they can part ways without either being broken. Hue, lightness and strength, the three dimensions Munsell described, don’t all show up in every test. When they conflict, trust the comparison you made with your own eyes in daylight over any number.
The season frame itself is a styling convention with a long and contested history, so treat results as a useful way of looking. The face reading uses Google’s MediaPipe model to find where to sample, and the methodology page has every formula after that, along with what we haven’t tested.
What’s free and what isn’t
All of these tools are free. We also list a paid Full Color Report, which isn’t on sale yet. The guides explain the ideas behind each test, if you’d rather read first.
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Common questions
- Which color analysis tool is most useful if I only try one?
- The full scan with a sheet of white paper. It's the only route that combines a corrected reading of your coloring with your own choices between colors, and it names a runner-up when the call is close.
- Do I need a camera?
- No. The scan and the try-ons accept a photo, and the quiz needs no picture at all. A camera gives the scan more to work with, because it can take several frames and use white paper.
- Can I use these on my phone?
- Yes, they're built to run in a phone browser. We haven't yet tested them across real phones, so if one misbehaves on yours, please tell us which phone.
See which colors are yours.
See your colors on your own face, compare seasons side by side, and get your season, your undertone and a starter palette.