What colors suit me? Upload a selfie for a photo-based color-season estimate. AI estimates visible undertone, value, and contrast from this image, then maps them to one of 12 styling palettes organized by temperature, value, and chroma. Lighting and camera white balance can change the result. The season verdict is free.
Most "what season am I" quizzes ask you to self-report your undertone, vein color, and jewelry preference - the exact judgments people find hardest to make about themselves, which is why quiz results swing between seasons. The analyzer above skips self-assessment entirely: it reads visible undertone, value, and contrast from your photo and maps them to one of the 12 seasons, with a runner-up when you're near a boundary. If you'd still like to sanity-check the result, compare your verdict's palette against its neighbors in the grid below - the right season is the one whose "best" colors make your skin look even and your eyes clear, not the one whose description sounds most like you.
The point of a color analysis is a better wardrobe, and the method is simple: your season's "best" colors go nearest your face - tops, knitwear, coats, scarves - where they make your skin look even and your eyes clear. Colors from your avoid list aren't banned; they just move away from your face, into trousers, skirts, shoes, and bags, where they can't wash you out. When shopping, three of your palette colors plus your season's neutrals cover most outfits - and the biggest practical win is usually swapping the wrong white (stark white vs cream) and the wrong black (true black vs soft charcoal or deep brown) for your season's version. The full report includes your complete wear-these and avoid-these palette with named shades you can match in a fitting room.
The 12-season styling convention groups palettes by temperature (warm, cool, or neutral), value (light to deep), and chroma (soft or muted to bright or clear). Visible contrast between features can help distinguish nearby palettes, but it is not the same as chroma. These labels describe relative palette qualities, not ethnicity, absolute skin depth, or required hair and eye colors. The convention uses three variants each of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.
Sunlit, delicate warmth
Light Spring is the lightest part of the warm palette, combining light value with clear-to-gentle chroma and relatively low contrast. Its suggested colors stay airy and warm; darker or heavily muted shades create a stronger effect rather than being universally unflattering.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Taylor Swift, Amanda Seyfried, Owen Wilson
The full Light Spring palette →Fresh, golden and alive
True Spring is the warmest Spring palette, centered on warm temperature, medium value, and clear chroma. Its suggested colors are fresh and saturated; cooler or dustier shades sit farther from the palette but can still be worn by preference.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Blake Lively, Jessica Chastain, Prince Harry
The full True Spring palette →Vivid warmth with snap
Bright Spring is a high-chroma, warm-neutral palette with medium value and strong contrast. Its suggested colors are vivid and clear; heavily muted shades create a quieter effect rather than being objectively wrong.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Emma Stone, Kate Middleton, Richard Madden
The full Bright Spring palette →Misty, cool softness
Light Summer is the lightest part of the cool palette, combining light value, softly muted chroma, and low contrast. Its suggested colors are cool and airy; warmer or much darker shades create a stronger contrast.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Margot Robbie, Dakota Fanning, Chris Hemsworth
The full Light Summer palette →Cool, elegant and even
True Summer is the coolest Summer palette, centered on cool temperature, medium value, and softly muted chroma. Its suggested colors are blue-based and measured; golden or highly saturated shades sit farther from this palette.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Emily Blunt, Barbara Palvin, Paul Mescal
The full True Summer palette →Muted, dusky harmony
Soft Summer is a low-chroma, cool-neutral palette with medium value and gentle contrast. Its suggested colors are dusty and blended; bright or sharply contrasting shades create a bolder effect rather than being objectively unsuitable.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Jennifer Aniston, Rihanna, David Beckham
The full Soft Summer palette →Gentle, earthy warmth
Soft Autumn is a low-chroma, warm-neutral palette with medium value and gentle contrast. Its suggested colors are muted and earthy; icy or very vivid shades create a sharper effect than this palette is designed around.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Gisele Bündchen, Drew Barrymore, Ben Affleck
The full Soft Autumn palette →Rich, golden earth tones
True Autumn is the warmest Autumn palette, centered on warm temperature, medium value, and rich, muted chroma. Its suggested colors are earthy and spiced; cool pastels and stark black-and-white sit farther from this combination.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Julia Roberts, Eddie Redmayne, Kate Beckinsale
The full True Autumn palette →Deep warmth, quiet power
Deep Autumn is the deepest part of the warm-neutral palette, combining deep value with rich chroma and stronger contrast. Its suggested colors are dark and warm-leaning; light pastels create a more pronounced contrast.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, Eva Mendes
The full Deep Autumn palette →Electric clarity
Bright Winter is a high-chroma, cool-neutral palette with medium value and strong contrast. Its suggested colors are vivid and crisp; heavily muted or dusty shades create a quieter effect than this palette is designed around.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Zooey Deschanel, Krysten Ritter, Timothée Chalamet
The full Bright Winter palette →Crisp, cool drama
True Winter is the coolest Winter palette, combining deep value, high chroma, and strong contrast. Its suggested colors are crisp and blue-based; warm earth tones sit farther from this palette without being objectively unsuitable.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Anne Hathaway, Lucy Liu, Cillian Murphy
The full True Winter palette →Midnight richness
Deep Winter is the deepest part of the cool-neutral palette, combining deep value with rich chroma and strong contrast. Its suggested colors are dark and saturated; golden browns and soft pastels create a gentler, lower-contrast effect.
Illustrative online typings (unverified): Zendaya, Penélope Cruz, Dev Patel
The full Deep Winter palette →What a photo can - and cannot - add
A photo avoids asking you to self-label your coloring, but it introduces camera and lighting error. Treat the verdict as a starting hypothesis: retest in consistent light and compare nearby palettes or real fabrics if the result feels borderline.
Personal color analysis is a styling method for comparing clothing and accessory colors with visible coloring. The 12-season convention organizes palettes by temperature, value, and chroma; feature contrast may help distinguish nearby palettes but is not the same as chroma. The result is subjective guidance, not a biological or clinical classification.
Your photo-based estimate uses visible undertone, overall value, and feature contrast to select one of 12 styling palettes, from Light Spring through Deep Winter. A single selfie cannot establish a definitive season because lighting and camera processing affect color, so use the free verdict and sample colors as a starting point for comparison.
This tool has not been validated against a blinded set of controlled draping results, so it does not claim an accuracy percentage. An in-person session can compare several fabrics under the same light, while a single-photo estimate is sensitive to illumination, camera white balance, makeup, filters, and image processing. Retest in consistent, even light if the result changes or feels borderline.
In personal color styling, undertone is a warm, cool, or neutral comparison label rather than a separate hidden color that a selfie can directly measure. Vein appearance and jewelry preference are not reliable standalone measurements. This analyzer makes a photo-based estimate, so lighting, tanning, redness, makeup, and camera white balance can change the visible result.
The 4-season convention uses Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. The 12-season convention splits each family into three variants - for example Light, True, and Bright Spring - to describe temperature, value, and chroma with finer vocabulary. It offers more descriptive categories, but that alone does not make a photo-based classification more accurate. This tool suggests one of all 12 palettes.
The free result gives you your season, undertone, contrast level, and sample colors. The complete Face Report adds a 12-season palette with wear-these and avoid-these shades alongside your facial measurements, hairstyle try-ons, AI styling concept, prioritized actions, saved web report, and emailed PDF. We no longer sell a separate color-only report.
Hair dye does not change your skin color, but this classifier uses your combined visible coloring, so dye can change the estimated value, contrast, and neighboring sub-season. For guidance that matches your current wardrobe, use a photo showing your everyday hair color. For a natural-color baseline, compare it with a photo taken before dyeing under similar light.
You have three options. In-person consultants (search 'color analysis near me') drape fabrics under controlled light - the most thorough method and the most expensive. Online consultants review your photos over video. Or you can start free right here: the AI analyzer on this page reads undertone, value, and contrast from a selfie and gives you a 12-season verdict in seconds. Many people use the free AI verdict first, then decide whether a professional draping is worth booking.
You don't need to install an app - this tool runs free in any phone or desktop browser, and unlike quiz-style apps it works from your actual photo rather than self-reported answers. If you're comparing options: photo-based analysis beats question-based quizzes (people misjudge their own undertone constantly), and a fixed 12-season palette system beats freeform AI suggestions because the output is consistent and checkable.
Yes, with caveats. The DIY methods - comparing gold vs silver jewelry, checking vein color, holding white vs cream fabric to your face - are exactly the self-judgments people get wrong most often, which is why quiz results swing between seasons. A more reliable DIY approach: take one unfiltered selfie in soft, even daylight and let the analyzer above read the undertone, value, and contrast signals directly. Then sanity-check the verdict by comparing its palette against neighboring seasons under the same light.
In-person consultations typically cost $100–$300 in the US, and the well-known Seoul studios charge similar rates plus the trip. Online consultant sessions typically run $75–$150. The photo-based AI verdict on this page is free, and the complete palette with wear-these and avoid-these shades is included in the full Face Report - a one-time purchase, not a subscription. A free AI estimate is a reasonable starting point before deciding whether an in-person draping is worth it to you.
Korean personal color analysis (퍼스널컬러) is the same 12-season framework popularized by Seoul studios, where a consultant drapes fabrics under controlled light to judge which palettes harmonize with your visible coloring. The K-beauty version made the vocabulary - 'warm tone' vs 'cool tone,' summer mute, winter bright - mainstream on social media. This tool applies the same 12-season convention to a photo estimate, without the flight to Seoul.
You can paste a photo into a general chatbot and ask, but generic chat models aren't constrained to a fixed palette system - they can invent colors, drift between frameworks, and give a different season each time you ask. This tool uses vision AI for classification only, then maps the result to a fixed, curated 12-season palette with specific named shades, so the same inputs produce consistent, checkable output.
A neutral estimate means the photo did not lean clearly warm or cool; it does not mean every color will work equally well. Value and chroma still narrow the suggested palette, and neutral-leaning results can appear in soft, bright, or deep sub-seasons. Compare the suggested colors with neighboring warm and cool palettes under the same light.