True Summer Color Palette
Cool · Soft · Medium · Summer family
Cool is the dominant characteristic. The palette sits in the middle for depth and slightly soft for clarity — cool color with a little grey in it, which is what keeps it calm.
Dominant characteristic → temperature. That is the axis the quiz scores highest for this season; temperature then places it in the Summer family.
The palette
Anchors
- Metal
- Silver
- Your white
- Pearl white
- Your red
- Cool raspberry
- Drains you
- Golden yellow
How to wear it
- Hue
Keep to the blue side of every hue. If a color looks warm next to your skin, it almost certainly is.
- Softness
A little grey in a color helps rather than hurts. Fully saturated brights look loud against this coloring.
- Neutrals
Soft navy, pale slate and pearl. Navy does everything black is supposed to do, without the harshness.
- Makeup
Rose, raspberry and cool plum. Brown-based nudes tend to go muddy.
Stylist's noteNavy is worth collecting in one consistent shade. Mismatched navies read as a mistake in a way mismatched blacks do not, so buy your core pieces in the same dye family.
Common questions
Is True Summer the same as Cool Summer?
Yes. In sixteen-season systems the name Cool Summer is more common; both describe the Summer whose dominant characteristic is coolness.
Should True Summer wear black?
Soft navy is almost always better. Black is cool enough but far too deep and clear for a palette built on medium, slightly muted color.