Deep Autumn
Deep colouring with warmth in it — dark enough that depth outranks every other characteristic.
Autumn family · Depth is the dominant characteristic
Measure your own seasonThe palette
Warm and deep, with strong contrast. Dark, rich colours with heat underneath.
- Wine #6B2737
- Pine #2F4A34
- Burnt orange #8A4B1F
- Espresso #3E3226
- Old gold #A67C1F
- Deep aubergine #4A3C5C
- Mahogany #7C2D12
- Deep teal #1F3A3D
Metals. Deep yellow gold and bronze.
What works against you. Pastels and light cool tones, which wash out against deep colouring.
Deep Autumn or Deep 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.
Deep Winter is the cool version of the same depth. Skin hue decides it, exactly as it does for the light pair at the other end: warm lands here, cool lands in Winter. Both can carry colours that would flatten a lighter colouring entirely.
What is worth knowing about it
Depth dominates, which means it outranks temperature when they disagree. A deep complexion with only mild warmth belongs here rather than in one of the more strongly warm seasons, because what this colouring can do — carry a colour dark enough to swallow a lighter one — matters more than the hue question.
The practical consequence is the reverse of the light seasons. Where Light Spring is overwhelmed by black, this colouring is under-served by pastels: they wash out against it rather than reading as soft. Both are failures of depth rather than of hue, which is the single most useful idea in the whole twelve-season system.
The rest of the Autumn 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.
- Soft Autumn — softness dominant. Warm-neutral with low contrast. Muted, earthy colours rather than saturated ones.
- Warm Autumn — warmth dominant. Strongly warm at medium depth. Rich, spiced, golden colours.
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.