Cool Summer
Cool at medium depth with muted chroma — colours that have some grey in them rather than none.
Summer family · Coolness is the dominant characteristic
Measure your own seasonThe palette
Definitively cool with medium depth and moderate softness. Blue-based colours throughout.
- Denim #5B7FA6
- Raspberry #B5546B
- Sea green #7FA8A0
- Cool plum #8B7BA8
- Cool grey #D6DCE3
- Deep navy #3F5E7A
- Orchid #C48FA5
- Teal grey #6E8B8B
Metals. Silver and white gold.
What works against you. Golden yellows and warm oranges, which fight the skin's blue base.
Cool Summer or Cool Winter?
The twelve-season system is six pairs. Each season shares its dominant characteristic with exactly one other, and the two differ on a single axis — which is where almost every misclassification happens.
Cool Winter is the other coolness-dominant season, and both are unambiguously cool. Clarity separates them: Cool Winter needs saturated colours, Cool Summer needs softened ones. Our tool decides it on iris chroma and on the lightness gap between hair and skin.
What is worth knowing about it
Muted does not mean dull, and this is the commonest misreading of the season. A muted colour is one with some grey mixed into it, which is a statement about saturation rather than about how noticeable it is. A dusty rose is muted and perfectly visible; a fluorescent pink is clear and no more visible at a distance.
The reason it matters is that pure, saturated colours read as slightly harsh against this colouring — the colour stays in the foreground and the face goes back. That effect is what colour analysis is actually describing, and it is why the system talks about harmony rather than about which colours are attractive.
The rest of the Summer family
Every family has three members, each with a different dominant characteristic. Sharing a family means sharing a temperature direction; it does not mean the palettes are interchangeable.
- Light Summer — lightness dominant. Cool and light, with gentle contrast. Soft, slightly powdery colours.
- Soft Summer — softness dominant. Cool-neutral with low contrast and low saturation. Everything works better slightly greyed.
How to find out whether this is your season
Not from a photograph taken under unknown lighting, which is what most online season quizzes amount to. The room's light changes measured skin hue by more than the difference between two adjacent seasons, so a colour reading is worthless unless something corrects for it first.
Our colour analysis tool white-balances against the whites of your eyes before measuring anything, and reports the three axes — temperature, depth and clarity — alongside the season they produce, so you can see which of them was decisive. Everything runs in your browser and the photo is never uploaded.
- Personal colour analysis — the full twelve-season reading.
- Skin undertone finder — the temperature axis measured on its own.
- Foundation shade matcher — depth and undertone as a coordinate you can shop with.
Seasonal colour analysis is a styling convention rather than a finding about anyone. What can be measured is the hue, lightness and chroma of your skin, hair and eyes; which colours anyone prefers to wear is a separate question and a matter of taste. Nothing here scores or ranks anyone's appearance.