Colors
Which colors suit you?
Pick a color and find out which of the 12 seasons wear it, which should skip it, and what to wear instead.
This index answers “does this color suit me?” for 36 wardrobe colors — every one measured against all 12 season palettes. Each color page names the seasons whose palette already holds it, the seasons that should skip it, and the closest real swatch in each of the 12 — measured in CIELAB, not asserted.
Browse all 36 colors
Grouped the way people shop rather than the way color space is organised. Every page carries the same twelve-season verdict table.
Neutrals · 10
The colors a wardrobe is built on — and the ones most likely to be quietly wrong for you.
- Blackthe default wardrobe neutral, and the one that most often fights warm, light coloring
- Pure Whiteoptic white — cool, stark and unforgiving next to warm skin
- Creamwarm off-white, the softer stand-in for pure white
- Beigelight warm neutral
- Camelthe warm mid-tone neutral that replaces beige
- Khakiwarm sandy neutral-green
- Chocolate Browndeep warm brown
- Greymid cool neutral
- Charcoalnear-black cool grey
- Navythe cool neutral that stands in for black on most people
Reds & pinks · 8
The family where undertone shows fastest: a blue-based red and an orange-based one behave like different colors.
Oranges & yellows · 6
The warm end. These reward golden coloring and are the hardest colors to borrow if you have none.
Greens · 5
Green splits by how much yellow is in it — which is why olive and emerald almost never suit the same person.
Blues & purples · 5
The most forgiving family in the set, and the one where clarity matters more than warmth.
Metals · 2
Gold and silver as colors you wear, not just jewelry you put on.
How the verdicts are computed
Most color-and-season content asserts. This one measures, and the method is short enough to check.
Every color carries a reference hex — the textbook version of it. That hex is converted to CIELAB, the color space where distance approximates how different two colors actually look, and compared with every swatch in all 12 palettes. The distance is then reweighted for this particular job, because plain color difference answers the wrong question: under it, warm ivory and optic white measure close enough that every warm season “wears” pure white — the one thing seasonal theory is most sure they should not.
| What is compared | 36 reference colors against 336 palette swatches |
|---|---|
| Color space | CIELAB — distance approximates perceived difference |
| Weighting | Lightness ×0.6, the yellow–blue (warm–cool) axis ×1.5 — undertone before depth |
| In the palette | The nearest flattering swatch falls inside the in-palette distance band |
| On the skip list | A swatch from that season's avoid list is closer than any flattering one |
| Verdicts on this site | 432 — every color × season pair, recomputed on every build |
| Source data | The same 12 palettes the paid report ships |
A check that it works rather than merely runs: gold resolves onto the springs and autumns and silver onto the summers and winters, with no hand-tuning — the textbook answer, arrived at by measurement. What it cannot do is tell you which season is yours; that is what the quiz and selfie are for.
Common questions about color and season
How do you decide which colors suit each season?
Each color carries a reference hex. That hex is converted to CIELAB and measured against all 336 swatches in the 12 season palettes, with the yellow–blue axis weighted up and lightness weighted down because seasonal analysis is an undertone judgement first. A color lands in a season's palette when its nearest flattering swatch is close enough, and on that season's skip list when a swatch from the avoid list is closer still.
Which colors suit the most color seasons?
Cream, Teal, Sage Green and Beige — each one sits inside 9 of the 12 palettes. Soft, low-contrast colors travel furthest, because they read as a version of something most palettes already hold.
Which colors suit the fewest color seasons?
Orange, Hot Pink and Royal Blue — each one sits inside only 3 of the 12 palettes. Saturated colors are specific by nature: there is no soft version of them for a palette to meet halfway.
Can I wear a color that isn't in my palette?
Yes — nothing here is a rule about what you are allowed to own. A color outside your palette works hardest against you next to your face, so wear it below the waist, break it up with a color from your palette, or take the version of it your own palette holds. Every color page lists that substitute for each season.
How many colors are in this index?
36, sorted into 6 families — neutrals, reds & pinks, oranges & yellows, greens, blues & purples and metals. They were chosen for the questions people actually ask ("does burgundy look good on me", "who can wear olive green") rather than to tile color space evenly.
How do I find out which colors suit me?
Take the 2-minute quiz and add one selfie. Palettewell reads your skin, hair and eye color, returns your season with the full palette, and every color on this index turns from a general answer into a yes or no about you.
Keep reading
- The 12 color seasonsEvery palette in full, with the traits behind it
- Find your undertoneWarm, cool or neutral — the first axis every verdict here turns on
- What is color analysis?How the 12-season system works, and what it can and cannot tell you
- Free color checkerCheck any color against a season without leaving the page