True Winter Color Palette

The True Winter blues are Royal Blue (#2242A8), Cobalt (#0047AB), Icy Blue (#C9E4F5), Ultramarine (#2B4CC0) and Cool Navy (#1C2B4A) — they carry the most pigment in a clear palette, and they sit at the deep end of the True Winter palette. All 5 are True Winter palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The True Winter pinks are Icy Pink (#F4C6DE), Fuchsia (#D6187F) and Magenta (#BE0E6F) — they carry the most pigment in a clear palette, and they sit at the light end of the True Winter palette. All 3 are True Winter palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The True Winter greens are Emerald (#00885A), Icy Mint (#CFF0E2) and Deep Emerald (#046A47) — clear and cool-leaning, in step with the rest of the palette, and they sit at the light end of the True Winter palette. All 3 are True Winter palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

Yes — this page is the True 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 (blues, pinks, greens 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.

True Winter is also sold as Cool 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 True Winter palette — True Black (#101014) — and only 3 of the 12 seasons carry a true black. True 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 True Winter should avoid are Camel, Rust, Mustard Gold, Salmon, Olive and Cream. 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 True Winter colors-to-avoid page.

Silver. True 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.

True Winter hair follows the same undertone rule as the clothes: keep it cool and decisive: black, cool dark brown, icy platinum — no caramel. 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 True Winter page carries 28 named values in total.

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

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