Color Season Quiz

How the three axes work

Seasonal color analysis rests on three measurable qualities of color, and the same three qualities describe your own coloring:

• Temperature — warm (yellow-based) to cool (blue-based).
• Value — light to deep.
• Chroma — bright and clear to soft and muted.

Whichever axis is strongest is your dominant characteristic. It decides the subtype: a dominant light reading gives a Light season, a dominant muted reading gives a Soft season, and so on. Temperature then decides which family that subtype belongs to. This is why Light Spring and Light Summer share a dominant characteristic but sit in different families.

What a questionnaire can and cannot do

Professional analysis works by draping fabric under neutral light and watching what happens to the skin — the analyst is reading a reaction, not collecting answers. A quiz reads self-reported features instead, which puts it roughly in the right family and much less reliably in the right subtype. If you want the subtype settled, that is what a draping session with a professional analyst is for.

So treat the family as sound, the subtype as a starting hypothesis, and your own mirror as the final say. If two neighboring seasons both seem plausible, that is useful information rather than a failure: it usually means your dominant characteristic is only slightly ahead of the next one, which the axis scores above will show you directly.

Twelve seasons or sixteen?

This quiz uses the twelve-season system derived from Sci\ART. Sixteen-season systems split the same space more finely; the four extra cells sit between the ones here rather than outside them, so a draft that lands on True Summer here would read as Cool Summer there. The palettes are close enough that the practical advice does not change.