Spring
Light Spring
Light, warm and delicate: pale golden skin, light hair and clear light eyes, with little contrast between them.
Peach · Coral pink · Aqua · Spring green · Buttercup · Light periwinkle
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Color Analysis
Upload one selfie and get your seasonal color type: one of the 12 seasons, from undertone, value, chroma and contrast measured on your own skin, hair and eyes. Your best colors, neutrals, colors to avoid and metals follow. Computed on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop a photo, paste one, or choose a file
Daylight, no makeup if you can, hair visible, a white wall behind you. JPG, PNG or WebP.
Runs in your browser. Your photo is never uploaded.
What it is
What seasonal color analysis is.
Seasonal color analysis sorts people by the colours that sit naturally in their skin, hair and eyes, then names the clothing and makeup colours that repeat those qualities. The four-season version groups warm and light as Spring, cool and soft as Summer, warm and deep as Autumn, cool and bright as Winter. The 12-season version splits each into three by the trait that dominates: light, deep, bright, soft, warm or cool. A colour that shares your dominant trait tends to make the skin look even and the eyes clearer; one that fights it brings out shadows, redness or sallowness.
An in-person analyst drapes coloured cloth under your chin in daylight and watches the face. This tool does the measurable part: it corrects the photo's colour against a white background, converts your skin, hair and eyes to CIELAB, scores the four traits and applies the same dominant-trait rules. It is a quick estimate from one photo, and it shows you the numbers so you can see why.
How it is measured
The four traits.
The photo is scaled to 1200 px, 478 landmarks find the face, and the two top corners of the frame set the white balance when they are bright and neutral. Skin is read inside both cheeks and the forehead with the darkest and brightest fifth dropped (stubble, glare). Hair is the dark band above the forehead, eyes are the iris. Each trait is a score from −1 to 1; the strongest one leads, and the undertone decides between the two seasons that share it.
- Undertone (cool ↔ warm)
- Whether your skin sits on the pink or the yellow side of neutral once the photo's light is corrected. Read from the hue angle of your skin in CIELAB, the colour space used to measure it, together with its yellowness (b*). A muted skin sits closer to neutral, as it should.
- Value (light ↔ deep)
- How light or dark your colouring is overall: hair, eyes and skin together, with hair weighing most. Black hair, dark eyes and medium skin read deep; blonde hair, light eyes and pale skin read light.
- Chroma (soft ↔ bright)
- How clear or muted your colouring is. Skin chroma is compared with what is typical at your lightness, then the contrast of the face and how far your eyes stand apart from your hair are added. Clear eyes against dark hair read bright; eyes close to the hair in lightness read soft.
- Contrast (low ↔ high)
- The lightness gap between your skin and your hair, as a share of the most contrast that skin could have. A blonde with pale skin is low; black hair against light or medium skin is high.
The 12 seasons
Twelve seasons, six dominant traits.
Each season is named by its dominant trait and its family. The two seasons that share a trait differ by undertone: Light Spring is warm, Light Summer cool; Deep Autumn warm, Deep Winter cool, and so on. Six of each season's best colours are shown.
Spring
Warm Spring
Warm and clear: golden or peachy skin, golden, honey or strawberry hair, and warm green, hazel or topaz eyes.
Bright coral · Turquoise · Warm yellow · Apple green · Salmon · Golden orange
Spring
Bright Spring
Clear, warm-leaning and high contrast: bright eyes, clear skin and hair that stands well apart from both.
Hot coral · Bright turquoise · Kelly green · Bright yellow · Poppy red · Bright periwinkle
Summer
Light Summer
Light, cool and delicate: pale rosy skin, ash-blonde or light ash-brown hair, and light blue, grey or soft green eyes.
Powder blue · Lavender · Rose pink · Mint · Periwinkle · Dusty aqua
Summer
Cool Summer
Cool and softly muted: rose or blue-toned skin, ash brown hair, and grey-blue, grey or cool green eyes.
Raspberry · Cornflower blue · Orchid · Sea green · Slate blue · Rose
Summer
Soft Summer
Muted, cool-leaning and medium: ash or mousy brown hair, grey-green or hazel eyes, and quiet contrast between them.
Dusty rose · Soft teal · Slate blue · Muted plum · Sage green · Rosewood
Autumn
Soft Autumn
Muted, warm-leaning and medium: soft brown or dark blonde hair, hazel or soft green eyes, and gentle contrast.
Salmon · Sage · Terracotta rose · Warm teal · Muted gold · Olive green
Autumn
Warm Autumn
Warm and rich: golden or olive skin, auburn, chestnut or red hair, and warm brown, amber or green eyes.
Rust · Olive · Mustard · Teal · Terracotta · Pumpkin
Autumn
Deep Autumn
Deep and warm-leaning: dark hair, dark warm eyes and skin from olive to deep brown, with real depth in the colouring.
Dark teal · Forest green · Rust · Warm aubergine · Tomato red · Mustard gold
Winter
Deep Winter
Deep and cool-leaning: black or near-black hair, dark eyes and high contrast between them and the skin.
Burgundy · Deep teal · Emerald · Sapphire blue · Deep plum · True red
Winter
Cool Winter
Cool and clear: rosy or blue-toned skin, cool dark hair and clear eyes, with sharp contrast and no golden cast anywhere.
Fuchsia · Royal blue · Cherry red · Violet · Icy pink · Cool emerald
Winter
Bright Winter
Clear, cool-leaning and vivid: high contrast between dark hair, clear skin and bright eyes.
Electric blue · Hot pink · True red · Emerald green · Lemon · Violet
The photo
How to take the photo.
Colour analysis is only as good as the light in the photo. Four things matter, in this order.
- Daylight, from the front
- Stand facing a window in daytime. Lamps are yellow or blue and shift every reading; a window gives the most neutral light you have.
- A white wall behind you
- The tool corrects the photo's colour using the two top corners of the frame. A white or near-white wall there makes that correction work. A cream wall reads slightly cool afterwards; a coloured wall is skipped.
- No makeup, hair visible
- Foundation and blush move the skin reading; a hat or scraped-back hair removes the hair reading. Wear a plain top.
- Straight on, face filling the frame
- Look at the camera with the whole face and the top of the hair in the shot. Turn off beauty filters and skin smoothing.
FAQ
What season am I?+
Upload one selfie above and the tool reads your skin, hair and eye colour, scores four traits and names one of the 12 seasons: Light, Warm or Bright Spring; Light, Cool or Soft Summer; Soft, Warm or Deep Autumn; Deep, Cool or Bright Winter. It also shows the second-closest season and how confident the read is.
Is this color analysis free?+
Yes. The tool on this page is free, needs no account and has no limit. The paid Personal Face Report is a separate product: it adds three independent reads of your season, a colour-corrected photo, a fuller palette and six shirt colours tried on your own face.
Is my photo uploaded?+
No. The face landmarks, the white balance, the colour measurements and the season are all computed in your browser. Nothing leaves your device and no server receives the image.
Why does my result change with lighting?+
Because the tool reads the light that reached the camera. A warm lamp adds yellow to the skin and pushes the undertone warm; a blue-ish room or shade pushes it cool; underexposure reads deeper. The white-wall correction removes most of a uniform colour cast, but it cannot fix mixed or coloured light. Two photos taken in daylight against a white wall should agree; a lamp-lit photo will not.
Summer or Winter: what is the difference?+
Both are cool families. Winter is deep or bright: high contrast between hair, skin and eyes, and clear rather than muted colouring. Summer is light or soft: lower contrast and gentler, greyed colour. If your hair is dark and your eyes are clear or dark, the cool read tends to Winter; if your hair is ash brown or blonde and the contrast is gentle, it tends to Summer.
What is the difference between Spring and Autumn?+
Both are warm families. Spring is light or clear: golden skin with light or bright hair and clear eyes. Autumn is deep or soft: richer, more muted colouring, with chestnut, auburn or dark hair and warm brown, hazel or green eyes.
What if I am neutral?+
Many people are. When the undertone sits near neutral, the tool leans on the other traits: for a deep colouring, clearer eyes and higher contrast tip it to Deep Winter, softer and warmer to Deep Autumn. The result shows the second-closest season for exactly this case, and the confidence tells you how close the call was.
Does hair dye change my season?+
The tool reads the hair colour it sees, so dyed hair moves the value and contrast readings. Your season is usually judged on natural colouring; if your hair is dyed far from its natural shade, treat the value and contrast meters as describing the photo, not you.
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