About Season Palette

What we make

The app reads a daylight still of a face for undertone and contrast, then styles wardrobe, makeup, hair, and jewelry to one of twelve seasonal palettes. The web quiz is a teaser: eyes, skin depth, hair. It returns a neighborhood of seasons. It does not drape fabric. It does not confirm undertone from a photo.

Journal bylines on this site are the organization, not a invented Person. Contact: [email protected]. The App Store listing is Color Analysis: Season Palette.

The method we cite, not the one we invented

Personal color analysis is observation of how cloth changes a face. It is not a personality type and not industrial colorimetry (CIE, spectrophotometers, paint). A short public history is on Wikipedia: color analysis (fashion).

Four seasons — Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter — entered department-store English through Carole Jackson's Color Me Beautiful (1980). Useful as a first cut. Too coarse to shop. Two Autumns do not share a lipstick.

We use twelve seasons on the Sci/ART axes (Kathryn Kalisz): warm/cool, light/deep, bright/soft. The same grid is taught by True Colour International (TCI). Sixteen-type schools name the borders too. Season Palette does not ship sixteen. If a consultant said "True Spring" and our palette says Warm Spring, those can be the same warmth-corner in twelve and different boxes in sixteen. Translate the face, not the string.

Three levels of certainty

Mixing these three is how apps get quoted as studios. We keep them apart on purpose — including in schema, titles, and localized copy.

1. Web quiz. Self-report. Neighborhood. No photo. /quiz and /{locale}/quiz.
2. Daylight photo on iOS. Undertone and contrast from a still. Paid confirmation. Not draping. Flash and yellow bulbs lie.
3. Live drape. Cloth on the shoulders, north light, someone watching the face. Still the gold standard. Jackson did not replace it. TCI still teaches it.

What the face actually does

Wrong color next to the jaw: yellow-cast or grey-cast, deeper under-eyes, lips that lose blood. Right color: evening of the skin, shallower shadows, color returning to the mouth. If two of three worsen, that color is not yours — even if you like it on the hanger. That is the behavioral test. It beats a vein chart under shop lights.

Optical white versus ivory, gold versus silver, at the collarbone in daylight, is faster than most quizzes for warm versus cool. Then chroma and depth pick the twelve. Explore the 12 palettes and the skin tone chart. Olive is a column, not a depth. Dusky and wheatish are regional depth names, not seasons.

What we will not claim

• The iOS app is not free. We do not mark schema as price 0.
• We do not self-host star ratings. App Store numbers live on the App Store.
• We do not sell city "near me" pages or extra analysis combos for the crawler.
• A three-question form will not name a hair-dye SKU. If the decision is expensive, drape.