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Free seasonal color analysis

Which season are you? Find the colors that make your face pop and the ones that wash you out, without a $300 session.

Updated October 2026 · By the Hue & Shape team

A photo in daylight works best · JPG, PNG or HEIC

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Seasonal color analysis sorts people into twelve palettes. The idea is simple: colors that share the undertone and depth of your skin, hair and eyes tend to make the face look even, while colors that fight them make it look tired.

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How it works

Personal color analysis from a photo

This tool samples three points on your photo (skin, eyes and hair) on your device, then asks seven questions that a photograph cannot answer, such as how your skin reacts to sun. The two readings are combined and matched to the nearest of the twelve seasons.

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Take a photo in daylight
No filter, no makeup if you can, and light on your face rather than behind you. A phone photo in front of a window is enough.
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Sample skin, eyes and hair
Tap a cheek, an iris and your hair. The tool averages the middle of each sample so a highlight or a shadow does not decide the color.
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Answer seven questions
Veins, metals, sun reaction, natural hair, eye color, contrast and bare skin. The answers correct the photo when the light was not perfect.
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Read your season
Your season is free. The full analysis adds your undertone, depth and clarity, your twelve colors and the ones to leave out, as a PDF palette card.

What the color analysis quiz asks, and why

Seven questions, each chosen because it moves one of the three things a season is made of: undertone (warm, cool, neutral or olive), depth (light, medium or deep) and clarity (clear or muted). Strong signals count for more. A vein color you can see clearly carries twice the weight of a plain answer, because it is one of the few tells that a camera cannot fake.

Wrist veins in daylight. Undertone. Green points warm, blue or purple points cool, a mix points neutral, and green with a gray cast points olive.
Gold or silver. Undertone. Whichever metal makes the skin look brighter next to the face is a direct read of warm or cool; liking both points neutral.
Half an hour of strong sun. Undertone and depth. Burning points cool, tanning easily points warm, burning then tanning points neutral, and a greenish olive tan points olive at medium depth.
Natural hair color. Depth, and a little undertone. Black and dark brown read deep, medium brown and red read medium, light brown and blonde read light; red, auburn or copper adds a strong warm vote.
Eye color in daylight. Undertone. Hazel, green and amber lean warm; blue and gray lean cool; pale blue or light gray also points light.
Contrast between hair, skin and eyes. Clarity, the hardest of the three to judge from a photo. High contrast points clear and bright, low contrast points muted and soft.
Bare skin depth. Depth, the second strongest signal after hair, with a small undertone vote for fair skin that burns or light skin with a golden tone.

What colors look good on me? Reading your result

The result names one season and shows how it got there: an undertone, a depth and a clarity, plus how clearly your answers and samples agreed. The season links to a palette page with 36 colors, the colors to avoid with a swap for each, outfits, hair color and makeup for that season.

A season is the nearest of twelve fixed points, so a reading near a boundary sits close to a neighbor. Every season page shows its neighbors on a map and has a section on how to tell the two apart. If the result surprises you, read the comparison before you trust either answer, then check it against the two or three items in your wardrobe that people compliment most.

A 10-minute draping check at home

Stand facing a window in daylight with no makeup and your hair pulled back. Hold one fabric at a time under your chin, filling the frame below your face: a towel, a scarf, a shirt or even a sheet of colored paper works. Compare pairs rather than single colors, because the difference between two is easier to see than the quality of one.

Start with the undertone pair: something golden or cream against something icy or optic white. Then a depth pair: a light pastel against something dark like navy or chocolate. Then a clarity pair: a bright, saturated color against a dusty, grayed version of a similar hue. The color that suits you makes the skin look even and the eyes clear; the other one shows shadows under the eyes, redness around the nose or a gray cast. Three pairs give you a direction on all three axes, which is usually enough to land on one family and two possible seasons.

Free result vs the color report

Free: your season, the reasoning behind it, and the full palette page for that season with 36 colors and hex codes, colors to avoid, outfits, hair and makeup. Nothing here needs an account, and the photo never leaves your device.

The color report is the personal layer: your own undertone, depth and clarity from your samples and answers, your palette, the colors that fight your coloring with the reason for each, neutrals and metals, as a PDF palette card. It is one payment, with no subscription, and refundable within 14 days.

Questions

Color analysis FAQ

How accurate is a photo based color analysis?

It is a good starting point, not a professional draping. Phone cameras correct color automatically, which is why the quiz carries half the weight. If the result feels wrong, compare the palette with clothes you already know work.

Do I need makeup off?

Foundation and lipstick change the skin sample. If you wear makeup, sample a bare area such as the side of the neck, or take the photo before applying it.

What are the 12 seasons?

Three per family: light, true and bright for spring; light, cool and soft for summer; soft, warm and deep for autumn; deep, cool and bright for winter. Each has its own palette page on this site.

Can I do the quiz without a photo?

Yes. Skip the photo and answer the questions. The result will be less precise, because depth and contrast are easier to read from a sample than from an answer.

What season am I?

The quiz answers that in about two minutes: it names one of the twelve seasons and links to its palette page. If you want to check by eye first, the family pages ask three routing questions each, and the draping check above takes ten minutes with things you already own.

Is there a free color analysis?

This one. The season, the palette page with 36 colors and hex codes, and the colors to avoid are all free. The paid color report adds your own undertone, depth and clarity readings from your samples, with your palette and the colors to leave out as a PDF, for one payment with no subscription.

How is this different from an in-person draping?

A draping session holds dozens of fabric colors under your face in controlled light, with a trained eye judging each one. This tool uses a phone photo and your answers instead, so it is faster and free but more exposed to camera color. The at-home draping check is the closest you can get to the in-person version without a consultant.

How we measure. The seasons on this site come from fixed positions for warmth, depth and clarity, and the free test matches you to the nearest one. Read the method