Colour analysis
Light Summer or Soft Summer?
This is your palette
The difference is depth: one palette is lighter, the other deeper. Temperature and clarity are the same.
How to tell them apart
- Compare your hair and your skin in daylight: the deeper the two are together, the deeper the palette that carries you.
- Hold a pale grey and then a charcoal near your face: the one that sits quietly is closer to your depth, the other either swamps you or washes you out.
- Look at a black-and-white photograph of yourself: if it reads mostly light, start with the lighter palette.
Side by side
Light Summer
cool, light and muted
Cool, light and soft. Low contrast throughout – the palette works by staying close together, not by opposing itself.
- Soft Powder Blue
- Periwinkle
- Cool Lilac
- Rose Petal
- Soft LemonSummer does have a yellow. It is this one, and only this one.
- Sea Green Soft
- Best whiteSoft WhiteBest white for you. Soft white, not optic white.
- Best darkCharcoal SlateUse instead of black. Your best dark neutral.
Soft Summer
cool, mid-toned and muted
Cool, mid-toned and muted. Everything is slightly greyed, and the palette holds together because nothing in it is louder than anything else.
- Dusty Blue
- Soft Periwinkle
- Muted Mauve
- Rosewood Pink
- Soft Olive GoldA cool season can wear olive, as long as it stays greyed.
- Sage Teal
- Best whiteCool Soft WhiteBest white for you. Soft, slightly warmed grey-white.
- Best darkSoft CharcoalUse instead of black. Your best dark neutral.
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How to find your palette
Colour analysis reads three things in your colouring: warm or cool, light or deep, clear or soft. The quiz asks about your eyes, hair and skin, looked at in a mirror by a window in daylight. It never photographs or scans your face, and the palette it finds is yours to keep.