Deep Winter Color Palette

The Deep Winter reds are Black Cherry (#4A1526), Cool Ruby (#8B1130), Berry Wine (#6D1C3E) and Cold Burgundy (#5A1230) — they carry the most pigment in a moderately clear palette, and they sit at the deep end of the Deep Winter palette. All 4 are Deep Winter palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The Deep Winter blues are Sapphire (#1F3B73), Pine Teal (#0F4C54), Midnight Navy (#17233F) and Cool Navy (#1C2B4A) — moderately clear and cool-leaning, in step with the rest of the palette, and they sit at the deep end of the Deep Winter palette. All 4 are Deep Winter palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The Deep Winter purples & mauves are Ink Violet (#3E2A66), Deep Plum (#4A2545) and Royal Purple (#4E2C86) — they carry the most pigment in a moderately clear palette, and they sit at the deep end of the Deep Winter palette. All 3 are Deep Winter palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

Yes — this page is the Deep Winter color chart. It carries 16 palette colors, 6 neutrals and 6 shades to avoid: 28 swatches in all, every one with its name and its hex code, and the palette is also grouped by hue family (reds, blues, purples & mauves and the neutrals) so you can pull one family out of the chart. The hex codes are rendered as text rather than baked into an image, so a screenshot keeps them readable and copy-paste still works.

Deep Winter is also sold as Dark Winter — the same season under a different system's naming. SciART-derived charts say “True”, “Bright” and “Deep” where older books say “Warm”, “Clear” and “Dark”. Whichever name you arrived with, the palette on this page is the one it points at. Style-essence labels like “ingenue” or “gamine” are a different system again — they type body and style rather than color, so they change how a garment is cut, not which colors suit you.

Yes. Black is part of the Deep Winter palette — True Black (#101014) — and only 3 of the 12 seasons carry a true black. Deep Winter coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), and black shares that base, so it frames the face instead of dropping a hard line under it.

The 6 colors Deep Winter should avoid are Camel, Pumpkin, Mustard, Warm Beige, Peach and Moss Green. Each one misses the palette on undertone, depth or clarity rather than on taste — the measured reason for each is on this page, with a palette swap for every one of them on the Deep Winter colors-to-avoid page.

Silver. Deep Winter coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), so a cool metal matches the palette's base; gold pulls yellow into the skin and fights it.

Deep Winter hair follows the same undertone rule as the clothes: blue-black, cool espresso, dark cool brown — golden highlights dilute you. The point is to keep hair, skin and palette on one temperature so nothing in the picture argues.

16 palette colors plus 6 neutrals, and Palettewell publishes every one with its hex code. Add the 6 shades to avoid and the Deep Winter page carries 28 named values in total.

Deep Winter is cool (pink/blue-based). On the other two axes it is deep in depth and moderately clear, and those two are what separate Deep Winter from the other Winter seasons.

Both are Winter seasons, so both share a cool base. They part on value (Deep Winter is deep, True Winter is medium) and chroma (Deep Winter is medium, True Winter is clear). In practice that is Black Cherry, Emerald Night and Sapphire against True Red, Royal Blue and Icy Pink.