This fast and free online personal coloring test helps you to identify your color season. There are 12 sub-seasons which would mean answering a lot of questions for each of them. However, the main four main seasons – Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter each contain three sub-seasons. Therefore, to speed your seasonal color detection up, my free online 12 color season quizzes are divided in two parts. The first quiz determines your main color season, and then your sub-seasons. This method saves you to answer 24 additional questions. Take the two free online 12 color season quizzes now to be able to create a wardrobe and dress in your most flattering colors.
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Disclaimer: I am not a licensed color analysist. My knowledge bases on studying various books on the subject, having had a four-season color analysis in the 1980s, and a 12-season color analysis in the 2010s, as well as taking an art internship on color theory. Despite I believe that I made no mistakes in coding the free online 12 color season quizzes, the lawyers require to disclaim that you take this free personal color quiz at your own risk.
What Is the Theory behind the Personal Seasonal Colors?
Each color has three characteristics, – a hue, value, and chroma. Our body also has these features. Consequently, we look best when we enhance our color appearance.
- The hue can either be cool or warm.
- The value is either light or dark.
- The chroma ranges from muted/soft to bright/clear.
Muted means a color has been mixed with gray, i.e. black and white. Light mean the color has been mixed with white, while dark refers to mixing with black. Bright/clear is the color in its original state.
As a result of the Munsell color system, there are 12 combinations where the first adjective refers to the dominating appearance:
- Bright, warm – Bright Spring
- Warm, bright – True Spring
- Warm, light – Light Spring
- Light, cool – Light Summer
- Cool, muted – True Summer
- Muted, cool – Soft/Muted Summer
- Muted, warm – Soft/Muted Autumn
- Warm, muted – True Autumn
- Dark, warm – Dark/Deep Autumn
- Dark, cool – Dark/Deep Winter
- Cool, dark – True Winter
- Cool, Bright – Bright/Clear Winter
Here the back slash indicates that some people address the respective sub-season under a different name. Note that in the US, people often call Autumn Fall.
Determinate Your Personal Color Season
Take this personal coloring test first to identify your main color season hue-, value-, and chroma-wise.
Which of the following best describes your eyes?
Don't worry when it's not an exact match.
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Which of the following best describes your skin color?
Hint: Take a look at your veins. When they look purple/bluish, your skin undertone is cool. When they are greenish, your undertone is warm. Note that some people may have both green and purple/bluish. If that's you, pick the choice that seems the closest. We will take care of this in a later step.
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Which of the following best describes your natural hair color?
How would you describe the contrast between your skin, hair, and eyes?
Hint: Use a black and white photo of your face when you are unsure about the contrast of your features.
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Free Personal Color Season Quiz
Spring
Your have an overall luminous, fresh appearance with your warm, bright and light colored features. Now let's see to which Spring sub-season (Bright, True or Light) you belong to identify your best spring colors. Take the quiz now.
Which of the following describes your eyes the best?
Which of the following applies to your skin the best?
Which of the following describes your natural hair color the best?
How would you call the contrast between your features?
Are You a Bright, True or Light Spring?
Bright Spring
Your best colors are the most saturated colors out of the 12 seasons. You colors are around a middle value, neither dark nor light. They are bright, clear, warm, vivid, vibrant, and wild. They remind of tropical islands, fruits, flowers and vegetation. Pinks, turquoises and lime greens are your fashion colors. Your blues have a hint of yellow.
Your neutrals are greyish browns, warm blues, soft white, yellowish off-white, and gentle greens.
Your worst colors are muted/dusty pastels and nudes.
True Spring
Your best colors combine warmth with brightness like warm greens, golden yellows, salmon, orange-reds, peachy pinks. Shades of light warm browns from beige to tan are your neutrals.
Your worst colors are cool and muted. Also avoid black, cool grays, purple, dusty browns and muted blues.
Light Spring
Your best colors are light, warm, and clear. Your neutrals are soft yellowish, pinkish off-white as well as light greenish greys. More on how to style pink as a neutral.
Your worst colors are overly bright, saturated or dark like dark blue, black, burned orange.
Your worst colors are dark and especially black.
Buy you light spring color fan now so you can compare clothing with your colors when shopping.
Summer
You have an overall gentle and delicate appearance with your cool, light, muted features. Now let's see to which Summer sub-season (light, True or Soft) you belong to identify your best summer colors. Take the quiz now.
Which of the following defines your eyes the best?
Which of the following applies best to describe your skin?
How would you describe your natural hair color?
Which of the following describes the contrast of your features the most accurately?
Are You a Light, True or Soft Summer?
Light Summer
Your summer sub-season is light summer. Therefore, your hues a medium cool, your values are light, and your chroma is medium bright/medium muted. This means your palette includes only bluish medium yellows, Your neutrals are ash brown, dark grayish blues, light muted-beige, light gray, and light-cool brown.
Your worst colors are dark (e.g., true black), warm, bright and vibrant (e.g., orange, warm reds).
Styling-wise monochromatic looks with slightly different tints of the same hue look great on you. More on styling monochromatic looks. Pair colors of your palette that have little value contrast between them. Try a neutral with a brighter fashion color of your palette. Analogous color combinations look great on you. Avoid all neutral outfits.
Your best prints have only colors from the light summer color palette. However, small amounts of color from a different season may still work. Go for low contrast prints. You look stunning in gentle, delicate floral prints, brush strokes and water-color inspired prints. They should be loosely arranged (e.g., Laura-Ashley-like or Vera Bradley-like floral prints).
You can wear both gold and silver jewelry, if the pieces are light. Rose quartz and white or pink pearls are great for you.
True Summer
Your color sub-season is True Summer. Your hues are cool with a medium slightly to light values and muted chroma. This means your flattering colors are cook with bluish undertone, dusky and grayish, rather than bright and saturated.
Your neutrals are dark cool grays, dark blues, cool browns, cool light grays, light sand shades, and grayish blues.
Your worst colors are warm, bright, and saturated including pure white and pure black.
Styling-wise your best best color pairings complement each other or have medium contrast. More on complementary colors.
You can wear monochromatic looks with a light and dark shade of the same hue. Another option are outfits with a neutral and fashion color in similar or slightly different values from your color palette. You also look great wearing analogous colors.
Avoid highly contrasting color combinations like complimentary colors.
Of course prints in true summer colors are best, but a small amount from a different season is ok most of the time. Medium contrasts prints are best. Not to delicate floral patterns or brush strokes look best on you.
Avoid stiff, ordered geometric and dense patterns.
Regarding jewelry brushed or satin finished silver, white gold and platinum are the most flattering for the True Summer. Great gemstones are amazonite, amethyst, apatite and pearls with bluish or pink undertone.
Soft Summer
You are a soft summer. Your hues, values and chroma are medium-cool, neutral-light, and muted, respectively. Therefore, your colors are cool yellow with blue undertone, blues, pinks and grays that are neither dark nor light. Furthermore, they are very desaturated, and muted.
Your neutrals are grayish dark browns, muted browns, light grays, and sand tones.
The worst colors for you are bright and warm.
Styling-wise monochromatic looks with slightly different shades of the same hue work for you. Pastels and grayed-out are best to create these looks. More on styling monochromatic looks.
True summers also look stunning in analogous colors.
Avoid hue contrast like complimentary colors.
When choosing prints go for low contrast with colors of the True Summer palette. However, low contrast prints with small amounts of color from a different season may work too. look for delicate, gentle, soft prints like florals, birds, and water color,
Avoid large and geometric prints because they clash with your soft appearance.
You can wear brushed, matte, satin, or hammered rose gold, gold and silver-colored metals, but silver looks best. Light to medium dark pearls work well with your soft appearance.
Fall/Autumn
You have a rich, but toned down appearance with your warm, muted, dark features. Now let's see to which Fall/Autumn sub-season (Soft, True or Deep/Dark) you belong to identify your best fall/autumn colors. Take the quiz now.
Which description characterizes your eyes the best?
What of the following applies best to your skin description?
Which description applies to characterize your hair?
How would you define the contrast between your features?
Are You a Soft, True or Deep Autumn/Fall?
Soft Autumn
You are a soft autumn. This means your appearance is soft and gentle because your hue is medium warm with a medium value, and a muted chroma. Consequently, they are muted and desaturated, neither too warm nor too cool. The colors of your palette have little contrast among each others. They have a soft, but rich appearance.
Your palette encompasses yellow, warm shades of blue (e.g., turquoise), warm greens, and warm browns al desaturated. Olive greens and delicate reds, Cardinal red, and pinks look great on you too. You can wear both silver and gold, but look better in gold.
Your best neutrals are dark brown, dark gray, dark green, dusty warm dark gray, off-white, yellowish beiges, and sand shades.
When wearing prints go for low contrast pattern in soft autumn colors with small soft motifs like florals. Stir away from harsh motifs like large, geometric or ordered patterns.
When styling outfits go for blending colors and values, rather than creating contrasts. Monochromatic looks with slightly different shades of the same hue look great on you. More on styling monochromatic looks.
Avoid color blocking with complimentary colors. Rather go for analogous color combinations.
Wood, amber, citrine, greenish gemstones, bone, yellow, rose and green gold look great on you for accessories.
You look worst in bright colors, especially, when they are cool, as well as in dark colors like black. True white is not for you.
True Autumn
Your color sub-season is True Autumn. This means your colors have an extremely warm hue, a medium dark value, and medium muted chroma. This translates in not fully saturated colors ranging from fairly light beige over warm yellows, spruce yellow, orange, burned orange, warm greens and warm browns, maroon, to fairly dark deep brown.
Your neutral colors are dark browns very dark, olive-ish greens, off-whites, warm beiges, cream, and ecru.
Your worst colors are cool and bright (e.g., magenta, true black, bright blue, true white) as well as icy pastels.
When styling outfits go for lower level of contrast like either pairing colors with similar hue or value. You also create stunning monochromatic looks with different shades of one hue, for instance, light and dark turquoise. More on styling monochromatic looks.
Other great options are combining a dark neutral with a light, rich fashion color of your palette, for instance dark olive or oxblood with mustard yellow.
Avoid all neutral outfits and color blocking with complimentary colors. Try analogous colors instead.
When wearing prints go for true autumn color pattern with low contrast that are not too bold. Small amount from another palette may work. Great pattern for true autumns are leaves, oval shapes, paisley, oriental and geometric retro patterns. Florals are not a good option for you.
Hammered, matt or oxidized gold, copper, brass and bronze are great options for jewelry. Amber, citrine, and warm greenish gemstones work for you.
Deep Autumn
Your autumn sub-season is deep aka dark. Your best colors have a medium warm hue, a dark value, and medium chroma. This means your best colors are warm, rich, and dark, You palette includes golden, mustard yellow, orange and red shades as well as turquoise and greenish blues. Your colors are neither soft and muted, nor vibrant and bright.
Your neutrals include a warm black with greenish undertone, dark chocolate browns, warm shades of beige, and yellow.
Your worst colors are toned-down dusty pinks and blues, icy, cool, white, and pastels.
When styling outfits go with contrast in value rather than hue, i.e. light with dark. You can wear complementary colors when they belong to your color palette. More on styling with color blocking.
While you can wear monochromatic outfits, it's not your best option. If you like the look go for the largest difference between the hues.
All neutral looks are also not in your favorite.
The best prints are those that include just deep autumn colors. However, small areas of a color from another palette still works for you. Prints with a natural high contrast, big, natural shape are best. Geometric retro prints, leaves, ovals are good pattern options. Stir away from dense (Laura-Ashley-like prints).
You can wear both gold and silver, but gold, bronze, brass, copper and pewter look better on you. Go for hammered, antique, or oxidized, rather than polished metals. Carnelian, garnet, jasper, tiger-eye and emerald are gemstones to try.
Winter
You have a high contrast, brilliant appearance with your cool, bright, dark features. Now let's see to which Winter sub-season (Deep/Dark, True or Bright) you belong to identify your best winterer colors. Take the quiz now.
Which of the following best describes your eyes?
What of the following best describes your skin?
Which description best matches your hair properties?
How would you define the contrast between your features?
Are You a Deep, True or Bright Winter?
Deep Winter
You are a dark aka deep winter.
Your hue is medium cool, your value is dark, and your chroma is medium bright. This means your best colors are highly saturated, relatively bright, and you best style them to create high contrast. Your color palette encompasses pinks, reds, purples and blues. Your yellows must have a hint of blue. Given your chroma your colors are not fully saturated and bright, but rather dark than bright.
Your neutrals are black, true white, light beige, light gray, dark blue and dark green shades, If you have very light skin you can wear a monochromatic black outfit. You can wear both silver and gold, but silver looks better on you.
When styling outfits create strong contrast between your colors in hue (e.g., white with blue, gray and red) and value (light vs. dark). More on styling blue and white outfits.
Your worst colors are light and warm or desaturated, toned-down, read light, warm, dusty colors.
True Winter
You are a true winter.
Your hue is cool, your value is medium-darker. Your chroma is halfway between medium and bright.
Your palette spans the extremes of light, dark and bright. Think of a winter landscape or a starry night. This means your best colors are saturated, bright and vibrant. This includes the coolest, iciest colors with a clear blue undertone. Consequently, there are only few bluish yellows. Your best colors include shades of blue and icy pinks.
Your neutrals are true black and true white. You are the winter who can wear head-to-toe true black, head-to-toe true white, or styling a black-and-white outfit without a pop of color. Other neutrals are dark blues and browns as well as light beiges and grays.
Your pastels are all frosty, icy with a bluish undertone. Pair them with your dark neutrals to create contrast. Styling outfits with contrast is best for you, but you can also wear all-dark or all-light monochromatic looks. More on styling monochromatic outfits.
You look great in hounds tooth, black and white herring bone blazers and suits. When wearing prints look for high contrast between the background color and the print. Go for prints that have only few or no colors of other palettes.
Your worst colors are warm and muted.
Bright Winter
You are a bright aka clear winter.
This means your hue is on the cool side, but not at the end. Your value is on the middle between light and dark with a slight favor for dark because of the bluish undertone of your best colors. Your chroma is unmuted meaning color best colors are highly saturated. This means like all winter seasons, your colors are mainly cool, and dark.
However, in contrast to the other winter seasons, your best colors are also bright, vibrant and intense. They are not frosty. You can wear neon yellow, acid greens, and bright fuchsia. Yellow shades with a tint of blue as well as colors that have a tint of blue like pinks, Royal blue, purples, Iris blue, dazzling blue, and bluish green shades which are saturated look great on you. You can wear both silver and gold, but silver looks better on you. Black and white are also in your palette. But don't wear them alone head to toe. Add a bright pop of color.
Your neutrals are charcoal, true white, light grays and light beiges as well as bluish black.
Your most unflattering colors are muted and warm.
Depending on the quiz result you will be automatically asked to take a second personal color quiz to identify your sub-season.
When you know your season from an earlier color analysis, you might directly take the second quiz to determine your sub-season. Just take the respective quiz below.
Identify Your Personal Color Sub-Season
Now that you know your season, take the respective season’s quiz. It will tell you your sub-season regarding your chroma.
Are You a Bright, True or Light Spring?
Take this personal coloring test when you belong to the Spring category.
Which of the following describes your eyes the best?
Which of the following applies to your skin the best?
Which of the following describes your natural hair color the best?
How would you call the contrast between your features?
Are You a Bright, True or Light Spring?
Bright Spring
Your best colors are the most saturated colors out of the 12 seasons. You colors are around a middle value, neither dark nor light. They are bright, clear, warm, vivid, vibrant, and wild. They remind of tropical islands, fruits, flowers and vegetation. Pinks, turquoises and lime greens are your fashion colors. Your blues have a hint of yellow.
Your neutrals are greyish browns, warm blues, soft white, yellowish off-white, and gentle greens.
Your worst colors are muted/dusty pastels and nudes.
True Spring
Your best colors combine warmth with brightness like warm greens, golden yellows, salmon, orange-reds, peachy pinks. Shades of light warm browns from beige to tan are your neutrals.
Your worst colors are cool and muted. Also avoid black, cool grays, purple, dusty browns and muted blues.
Light Spring
Your best colors are light, warm, and clear. Your neutrals are soft yellowish, pinkish off-white as well as light greenish greys. More on how to style pink as a neutral.
Your worst colors are overly bright, saturated or dark like dark blue, black, burned orange.
Your worst colors are dark and especially black.
Buy you light spring color fan now so you can compare clothing with your colors when shopping.
Are You a Light, True or Soft Summer?
Take this quiz when you belong to the Summer category.
Which of the following defines your eyes the best?
Which of the following applies best to describe your skin?
How would you describe your natural hair color?
Which of the following describes the contrast of your features the most accurately?
Are You a Light, True or Soft Summer?
Light Summer
Your summer sub-season is light summer. Therefore, your hues a medium cool, your values are light, and your chroma is medium bright/medium muted. This means your palette includes only bluish medium yellows, Your neutrals are ash brown, dark grayish blues, light muted-beige, light gray, and light-cool brown.
Your worst colors are dark (e.g., true black), warm, bright and vibrant (e.g., orange, warm reds).
Styling-wise monochromatic looks with slightly different tints of the same hue look great on you. More on styling monochromatic looks. Pair colors of your palette that have little value contrast between them. Try a neutral with a brighter fashion color of your palette. Analogous color combinations look great on you. Avoid all neutral outfits.
Your best prints have only colors from the light summer color palette. However, small amounts of color from a different season may still work. Go for low contrast prints. You look stunning in gentle, delicate floral prints, brush strokes and water-color inspired prints. They should be loosely arranged (e.g., Laura-Ashley-like or Vera Bradley-like floral prints).
You can wear both gold and silver jewelry, if the pieces are light. Rose quartz and white or pink pearls are great for you.
True Summer
Your color sub-season is True Summer. Your hues are cool with a medium slightly to light values and muted chroma. This means your flattering colors are cook with bluish undertone, dusky and grayish, rather than bright and saturated.
Your neutrals are dark cool grays, dark blues, cool browns, cool light grays, light sand shades, and grayish blues.
Your worst colors are warm, bright, and saturated including pure white and pure black.
Styling-wise your best best color pairings complement each other or have medium contrast. More on complementary colors.
You can wear monochromatic looks with a light and dark shade of the same hue. Another option are outfits with a neutral and fashion color in similar or slightly different values from your color palette. You also look great wearing analogous colors.
Avoid highly contrasting color combinations like complimentary colors.
Of course prints in true summer colors are best, but a small amount from a different season is ok most of the time. Medium contrasts prints are best. Not to delicate floral patterns or brush strokes look best on you.
Avoid stiff, ordered geometric and dense patterns.
Regarding jewelry brushed or satin finished silver, white gold and platinum are the most flattering for the True Summer. Great gemstones are amazonite, amethyst, apatite and pearls with bluish or pink undertone.
Soft Summer
You are a soft summer. Your hues, values and chroma are medium-cool, neutral-light, and muted, respectively. Therefore, your colors are cool yellow with blue undertone, blues, pinks and grays that are neither dark nor light. Furthermore, they are very desaturated, and muted.
Your neutrals are grayish dark browns, muted browns, light grays, and sand tones.
The worst colors for you are bright and warm.
Styling-wise monochromatic looks with slightly different shades of the same hue work for you. Pastels and grayed-out are best to create these looks. More on styling monochromatic looks.
True summers also look stunning in analogous colors.
Avoid hue contrast like complimentary colors.
When choosing prints go for low contrast with colors of the True Summer palette. However, low contrast prints with small amounts of color from a different season may work too. look for delicate, gentle, soft prints like florals, birds, and water color,
Avoid large and geometric prints because they clash with your soft appearance.
You can wear brushed, matte, satin, or hammered rose gold, gold and silver-colored metals, but silver looks best. Light to medium dark pearls work well with your soft appearance.
Are You a Soft, True or Dark Autumn?
Take this quiz when you belong to the Autumn category.
Which description characterizes your eyes the best?
What of the following applies best to your skin description?
Which description applies to characterize your hair?
How would you define the contrast between your features?
Are You a Soft, True or Deep Autumn/Fall?
Soft Autumn
You are a soft autumn. This means your appearance is soft and gentle because your hue is medium warm with a medium value, and a muted chroma. Consequently, they are muted and desaturated, neither too warm nor too cool. The colors of your palette have little contrast among each others. They have a soft, but rich appearance.
Your palette encompasses yellow, warm shades of blue (e.g., turquoise), warm greens, and warm browns al desaturated. Olive greens and delicate reds, Cardinal red, and pinks look great on you too. You can wear both silver and gold, but look better in gold.
Your best neutrals are dark brown, dark gray, dark green, dusty warm dark gray, off-white, yellowish beiges, and sand shades.
When wearing prints go for low contrast pattern in soft autumn colors with small soft motifs like florals. Stir away from harsh motifs like large, geometric or ordered patterns.
When styling outfits go for blending colors and values, rather than creating contrasts. Monochromatic looks with slightly different shades of the same hue look great on you. More on styling monochromatic looks.
Avoid color blocking with complimentary colors. Rather go for analogous color combinations.
Wood, amber, citrine, greenish gemstones, bone, yellow, rose and green gold look great on you for accessories.
You look worst in bright colors, especially, when they are cool, as well as in dark colors like black. True white is not for you.
True Autumn
Your color sub-season is True Autumn. This means your colors have an extremely warm hue, a medium dark value, and medium muted chroma. This translates in not fully saturated colors ranging from fairly light beige over warm yellows, spruce yellow, orange, burned orange, warm greens and warm browns, maroon, to fairly dark deep brown.
Your neutral colors are dark browns very dark, olive-ish greens, off-whites, warm beiges, cream, and ecru.
Your worst colors are cool and bright (e.g., magenta, true black, bright blue, true white) as well as icy pastels.
When styling outfits go for lower level of contrast like either pairing colors with similar hue or value. You also create stunning monochromatic looks with different shades of one hue, for instance, light and dark turquoise. More on styling monochromatic looks.
Other great options are combining a dark neutral with a light, rich fashion color of your palette, for instance dark olive or oxblood with mustard yellow.
Avoid all neutral outfits and color blocking with complimentary colors. Try analogous colors instead.
When wearing prints go for true autumn color pattern with low contrast that are not too bold. Small amount from another palette may work. Great pattern for true autumns are leaves, oval shapes, paisley, oriental and geometric retro patterns. Florals are not a good option for you.
Hammered, matt or oxidized gold, copper, brass and bronze are great options for jewelry. Amber, citrine, and warm greenish gemstones work for you.
Deep Autumn
Your autumn sub-season is deep aka dark. Your best colors have a medium warm hue, a dark value, and medium chroma. This means your best colors are warm, rich, and dark, You palette includes golden, mustard yellow, orange and red shades as well as turquoise and greenish blues. Your colors are neither soft and muted, nor vibrant and bright.
Your neutrals include a warm black with greenish undertone, dark chocolate browns, warm shades of beige, and yellow.
Your worst colors are toned-down dusty pinks and blues, icy, cool, white, and pastels.
When styling outfits go with contrast in value rather than hue, i.e. light with dark. You can wear complementary colors when they belong to your color palette. More on styling with color blocking.
While you can wear monochromatic outfits, it's not your best option. If you like the look go for the largest difference between the hues.
All neutral looks are also not in your favorite.
The best prints are those that include just deep autumn colors. However, small areas of a color from another palette still works for you. Prints with a natural high contrast, big, natural shape are best. Geometric retro prints, leaves, ovals are good pattern options. Stir away from dense (Laura-Ashley-like prints).
You can wear both gold and silver, but gold, bronze, brass, copper and pewter look better on you. Go for hammered, antique, or oxidized, rather than polished metals. Carnelian, garnet, jasper, tiger-eye and emerald are gemstones to try.
Are You a Dark, True or Bright Winter?
Take this quiz when you belong to the Winter category.
Which of the following best describes your eyes?
What of the following best describes your skin?
Which description best matches your hair properties?
How would you define the contrast between your features?
Are You a Deep, True or Bright Winter?
Deep Winter
You are a dark aka deep winter.
Your hue is medium cool, your value is dark, and your chroma is medium bright. This means your best colors are highly saturated, relatively bright, and you best style them to create high contrast. Your color palette encompasses pinks, reds, purples and blues. Your yellows must have a hint of blue. Given your chroma your colors are not fully saturated and bright, but rather dark than bright.
Your neutrals are black, true white, light beige, light gray, dark blue and dark green shades, If you have very light skin you can wear a monochromatic black outfit. You can wear both silver and gold, but silver looks better on you.
When styling outfits create strong contrast between your colors in hue (e.g., white with blue, gray and red) and value (light vs. dark). More on styling blue and white outfits.
Your worst colors are light and warm or desaturated, toned-down, read light, warm, dusty colors.
True Winter
You are a true winter.
Your hue is cool, your value is medium-darker. Your chroma is halfway between medium and bright.
Your palette spans the extremes of light, dark and bright. Think of a winter landscape or a starry night. This means your best colors are saturated, bright and vibrant. This includes the coolest, iciest colors with a clear blue undertone. Consequently, there are only few bluish yellows. Your best colors include shades of blue and icy pinks.
Your neutrals are true black and true white. You are the winter who can wear head-to-toe true black, head-to-toe true white, or styling a black-and-white outfit without a pop of color. Other neutrals are dark blues and browns as well as light beiges and grays.
Your pastels are all frosty, icy with a bluish undertone. Pair them with your dark neutrals to create contrast. Styling outfits with contrast is best for you, but you can also wear all-dark or all-light monochromatic looks. More on styling monochromatic outfits.
You look great in hounds tooth, black and white herring bone blazers and suits. When wearing prints look for high contrast between the background color and the print. Go for prints that have only few or no colors of other palettes.
Your worst colors are warm and muted.
Bright Winter
You are a bright aka clear winter.
This means your hue is on the cool side, but not at the end. Your value is on the middle between light and dark with a slight favor for dark because of the bluish undertone of your best colors. Your chroma is unmuted meaning color best colors are highly saturated. This means like all winter seasons, your colors are mainly cool, and dark.
However, in contrast to the other winter seasons, your best colors are also bright, vibrant and intense. They are not frosty. You can wear neon yellow, acid greens, and bright fuchsia. Yellow shades with a tint of blue as well as colors that have a tint of blue like pinks, Royal blue, purples, Iris blue, dazzling blue, and bluish green shades which are saturated look great on you. You can wear both silver and gold, but silver looks better on you. Black and white are also in your palette. But don't wear them alone head to toe. Add a bright pop of color.
Your neutrals are charcoal, true white, light grays and light beiges as well as bluish black.
Your most unflattering colors are muted and warm.
References
Alexander, L. (2009) Color Revival: Understanding the 12 Season Color Analysis System. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform,
Brunger, K. (2017) Color Analysis – The Complete How to Guide for Ease and Analyzing Personal WOW Colors, International Image Institute, Canada, p. 104.
Henderson, V., Henshaw, P. (2009) Color Me Younger, Hamlyn UK, p. 160
Itten, J. (1986) The Color Star, John Wiley & Sons, New York
Itten, J. (1962) The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color. Reinhold, New York.
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