Colour analysis
Light Summer or True Summer?
This is your palette
The difference is clarity: one palette is clear and bright, the other soft and muted. Temperature and depth are the same.
How to tell them apart
- Hold a clear, saturated colour and its dusty version under your face, one after the other: if you belong to the clear palette, the clear one makes your eyes look brighter.
- Notice how much contrast there is between your hair, skin and eyes: strong contrast carries clear colour, low contrast suits soft colour.
- If people comment on a bright colour rather than on you when you wear it, the softer palette is likely yours.
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.
True Summer
cool, light and clear
Cool, light and clear. Icy rather than dark: the clarity comes from the colours being clean, not from them being deep.
- Icy Aqua
- Clear Periwinkle
- Cool Orchid
- Raspberry Rose
- Icy LemonThe one yellow a cool light season can wear.
- Clear Mint
- Best whiteIcy WhiteBest white for you. Cold and clean.
- Best darkCool GraphiteUse instead of black – black is a shade too hard for a light season.
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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.