Fully warm at 1.00 with medium depth and contrast, and colours that are rich and earthy rather than clear.
Last reviewed 2 August 2026By Sravya
warm, golden base
medium
medium
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.
Warm Autumn scores the maximum 1.00 on temperature, making it one of only two seasons that is fully warm. Colouring is golden and rich: skin with a golden or bronze cast, hair from auburn through copper to warm chestnut, and eyes in warm hazel, amber or golden brown.
Chroma sits at -0.70, meaning colours are muted rather than clear. That is the axis separating it from Warm Spring, which shares the identical temperature but needs bright, fresh colour. Same warmth, opposite brightness.
Confirm full warmth. Gold should beat silver decisively, and cream should beat optical white without hesitation.
Then test richness. Hold a full-strength rust or ochre against your face, then a clear marigold. Warm Autumn takes the rust comfortably where a Warm Spring would look dulled by it.
Check depth is medium at 0. If the darkest earth colours suit you best, Deep Autumn at depth 1.00 is the better fit.
Mistaken for
Identical temperature at 1.00. Chroma separates: -0.70 muted here against 0.65 clear there. Rust against marigold.
Mistaken for
Deep Autumn is darker at depth 1.00 against 0 here, and slightly less warm at 0.55. If very deep colours suit better than mid ones, 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 should read like natural pigment: warm, rich and slightly earthy. Anything clean, icy or blue-based works against the whole palette.
This is the season most people picture when they hear autumn colours, and it is the one that can wear them at full strength.
Worth reaching for
Works against it
Swap black for bronze
Use deep bronze, warm chocolate or dark olive wherever you would reach for black.
Black is cool and clean, and this palette is warm and earthy. Deep warm neutrals give the same anchoring weight while agreeing with the colouring instead of arguing with it.
Both families are warm. Chroma is what separates them. A Warm Autumn in clear spring brights looks slightly artificial rather than golden.
Olive, moss and pine are among the strongest colours available to this season. The instinct to avoid green usually comes from experience with cool blue-greens, which are a different thing entirely.
It is the standard smart neutral and it is the wrong one here. Cream or ivory does the same job and keeps the warmth intact.
Color Palette Analysis
Seasonal color analysisThe temperature, value and chroma framework behind the four season families.
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Color Palette Analysis
Seasonal color analysis chart: 12 seasonsThe twelve-season grouping and neighbouring season descriptions.
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Color Palette Analysis
What is color analysis?Why undertone is considered alongside depth, chroma and contrast.
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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.
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