Winter color palette

All 45 Winter colors, with hex codes — the three Winter palettes hold 48 swatches between them and 45 distinct colors, because 3 colors appear in more than one Winter season. Wear them near the face, where the color is doing its job. Each season’s own page carries its 16 colors, its neutrals and its shades to avoid.

The three Winter seasons are True Winter, Deep Winter and Bright Winter. They share one undertone and part on depth and clarity: True Winter is medium in depth and clear and true; Deep Winter is deep in depth and moderately clear; Bright Winter is medium in depth and bright and highly saturated.

The same 45 colors sorted by hue instead of by season — each swatch filed by where it sits in CIELAB, not by what it is called. The 5 largest groups in the Winter palette are below with their hex codes.

12 distinct neutrals across the three Winter seasons — the coat, the trousers, the knit worn weekly. True Black (#101014) is the deepest and Pure White (#FFFFFF) the lightest, and most Winter outfits are built between those two with one palette color near the face.

True Winter: black + white + one icy bright; contrast is the whole outfit. Jewelry: silver.

Deep Winter: black is genuinely yours; run jewel tones against it at full contrast. Jewelry: silver.

Bright Winter: one electric color against black or white; accessories in chrome. Jewelry: silver.

Undertone puts you in the Winter family; two more questions — depth and clarity — pick the season inside it. Depth is how light or deep your natural coloring runs (medium to deep across this family) and clarity is how bright or muted it is (medium to bright). True Winter: medium depth, clear clarity. Deep Winter: deep depth, medium clarity. Bright Winter: medium depth, bright clarity. The free Palettewell undertone quiz settles the first axis; the full analysis uses a quiz plus one selfie to settle all three.

Take the free undertone quiz to settle warm against cool, then get the full analysis to place yourself inside the Winter family.

No. There is no warm Winter in the 12-season system — all three Winter seasons are cool, and that shared undertone is what makes them a family. Measured across the palettes, the warmest-leaning of the three is Deep Winter, whose colors sit closest to neutral on the yellow-blue axis, so “warm winter” usually points at it. If your coloring reads warm, the comparison to read is Deep Autumn vs Deep Winter — that crossover, not a season that does not exist, is what the phrase is reaching for.

Deep Autumn vs Deep Winter — both palettes side by side, and the test that separates them.

Not really. No Winter season is muted — the family runs medium to bright in clarity, and clarity is half of what makes it a Winter. The softest of the three is Deep Winter, the least saturated Winter palette when you measure it. If your coloring is genuinely muted and cool, the palette that fits is Soft Summer rather than a Winter one.

The Soft Summer palette in full — every color with its hex code.