Deep at 1.00 and warm at 0.55, with moderate contrast and colours that stay rich rather than bright.
Last reviewed 2 August 2026By Sravya
slight warm, golden base
deep colouring
slight high, striking
muted, softened
The palette
Each axis runs from about -1 to +1 and is scored separately. These are editorial centres for a repeatable comparison, and the hex values are screen references rather than measured standards. Scoring the four apart is what lets the tool tell you which single call was the shaky one, instead of handing you a season and no reasoning.
Deep Autumn sits at maximum depth alongside Deep Winter. Colouring is dark and warm: deep brown or black hair, skin from warm medium through to deep, and eyes in dark brown, deep hazel or dark warm green.
Temperature is a clear warm lean at 0.55 rather than the full 1.00 of Warm Autumn, and chroma is muted at -0.65. Depth is therefore the leading quality, warmth the second, and the combination is what separates it from Deep Winter, which shares the depth but leans cool.
Confirm depth. If light and pastel colours consistently look weak on you while dark colours look natural, you are in a deep season.
Then temperature. Hold a deep chestnut or forest green against your face, then a cool aubergine. Deep Autumn prefers the warm one.
Check chroma. At -0.65 colours are rich rather than bright. If genuinely vivid colour suits better, Deep Winter is the closer fit.
Mistaken for
Same depth at 1.00. Temperature separates them: 0.55 warm here, -0.35 cool there. Forest green against aubergine is the comparison.
Mistaken for
Warm Autumn is warmer at 1.00 but sits at medium depth. If mid-depth rust suits better than very dark chestnut, look there.
Light Spring
Warm Spring
Clear Spring
Light Summer
Cool Summer
Soft Summer
Soft Autumn
Warm Autumn
Deep Autumn
Deep Winter
Cool Winter
Clear Winter
These are the actual palettes the colour tool works from, not a sample. Point at one to hold it. Twelve seasons rather than the old four, because four cannot separate someone light and cool from someone deep and cool.
Colours must carry real depth and real warmth together. Light colours disappear against this colouring and cool ones sit oddly on it.
This palette is built from the darkest end of the autumn range, and it is one of the few seasons that can wear genuinely dark colour head to toe without looking severe.
Worth reaching for
Works against it
Black is workable but not best
Deep chocolate, dark olive or deep teal all beat black next to the face.
Unlike the lighter autumn seasons, this one has the depth to carry black. It just has better options, because black is cool and this colouring leans warm.
At depth 1.00, light colours create a gap the face cannot bridge, and the result reads washed out rather than soft. Softening here means going muted, not going light.
The depth is identical, so people sort on that alone. Temperature is the axis that separates them, and Deep Autumn in cool winter colours looks slightly grey.
Deep colouring does not become lighter in July. A deep teal or dark olive in a light fabric solves the seasonal problem without abandoning the palette.
Color Palette Analysis
Seasonal color analysisThe temperature, value and chroma framework behind the four season families.
Last checked 2026-07-31
Color Palette Analysis
Seasonal color analysis chart: 12 seasonsThe twelve-season grouping and neighbouring season descriptions.
Last checked 2026-07-31
Color Palette Analysis
What is color analysis?Why undertone is considered alongside depth, chroma and contrast.
Last checked 2026-07-31
The tool scores temperature, depth, contrast and chroma separately across all twelve seasons, then shows which of the four calls was closest to a boundary. That is the honest answer to why different sites give you different seasons.
Find my colour seasonOr see all the guides.