What Is My Colour Season?

Colour season analysis is a personal colouring system that groups people into four seasonal categories — Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter — based on the interaction of their skin undertone, hair depth, and eye colour. Each season is associated with a family of colours that harmonise with that particular colouring profile, helping you choose clothing, makeup, and accessories that are naturally flattering.

MediaPipe Face Landmarker maps 478 precise points on your face and identifies the cheek (skin), forehead-hair boundary (hair), and iris (eye) regions. The tool samples average pixel colours from those three areas on an offscreen canvas. It then derives undertone (warm, cool, or neutral) from the skin hue, depth (light or deep) from combined skin and hair lightness, and maps the combination to one of the four seasons.

Webcam white balance and indoor lighting routinely add a warm or cool colour cast to photos. This directly shifts the sampled RGB values and can nudge undertone readings across the warm/cool boundary. For reliable results, use even, neutral daylight or a colour-balanced white light source from in front of you. Avoid warm bulbs, window side-lighting, or coloured walls nearby.

No. All processing happens entirely in your browser using MediaPipe — your photo never leaves your device and is never uploaded to any server.

A warm undertone means your skin has a yellow, golden, peachy, or olive quality. The skin hue sits in the yellow-to-orange range. Spring and Autumn seasons have warm undertones. In practice, warm-undertoned people often find gold jewellery, cream whites, and earthy tones more flattering than silver or stark white.

A cool undertone means your skin has a pink, rosy, or bluish quality. The skin hue sits closer to the red-to-pink range. Summer and Winter seasons have cool undertones. Cool-undertoned people often find silver jewellery, pure white, and blue-based colours more flattering than gold or warm yellow tones.

A neutral undertone sits between warm and cool — the skin hue is neither distinctly golden nor distinctly pink. Neutral undertones can wear both warm and cool colour families, though one usually suits slightly better. The tool maps neutral undertones to Summer (if light) or Winter (if deep) as a default, but the result may not be definitive for neutral-undertone individuals.

Both Spring and Autumn are warm seasons, but they differ in depth. Spring colouring is light and bright — golden blonde to light warm-brown hair, peachy or ivory skin, and clear warm eyes. Autumn colouring is deeper and richer — dark warm-brown, auburn, or chestnut hair, golden or olive skin, and deep hazel or dark eyes. Spring suits light, clear warm tones; Autumn suits rich, earthy tones.

Both Summer and Winter are cool seasons, differing in depth. Summer is light and muted — ash-blonde to ash-brown hair, cool-beige or rosy skin, and soft cool eyes. Winter is deep and clear — dark-brown to black hair, cool porcelain or deep-cool skin, and icy or dark eyes. Summer suits soft, dusty pastels; Winter suits bold, pure, high-contrast colours.

The 12-season system divides each of the four main seasons into three sub-seasons based on additional properties like saturation and contrast. Spring splits into Light Spring, Warm Spring, and Bright Spring. Summer into Light Summer, Cool Summer, and Soft Summer. Autumn into Soft Autumn, Warm Autumn, and Deep Autumn. Winter into Deep Winter, Cool Winter, and Bright Winter. This tool is a v1 four-season classifier; the module is structured so 12 sub-seasons can be added in a future version.

Low-confidence warnings appear when the sampled colours show signs that the photo conditions may have distorted the result — for example, if the skin sample is very dark (underexposed or in shadow), very bright (flash wash-out), nearly colourless (flat lighting hiding undertone), or if the hair region appears brighter than the skin (hair may have landed on the sky or forehead rather than hair). Retake the photo following the lighting tips above.

Yes — people with genuinely neutral undertones or moderate depth can sit on the boundary between two seasons. In those cases, consider trying the palettes for both adjacent seasons and observing which colours feel more energising near your face. A certified personal colour analyst can provide a more nuanced reading with fabric drapes and controlled lighting.

Your underlying skin undertone does not change, but depth and contrast can shift with age as skin tone adjusts and hair lightens or is coloured. If you colour your hair significantly (e.g., going from dark brown to platinum blonde), it may be worth re-testing as the depth dimension of your result could change.

Yes — the system works across all skin tones. Deep skin tones simply tend toward Autumn or Winter results depending on undertone. The low-confidence warning will flag if the photo is underexposed, which is more common with darker skin photographed in poor lighting because the auto-exposure system may not adjust correctly. The same photo-quality tips apply.

A professional colour analyst uses physical fabric drapes tested under controlled lighting to assess how different colour families affect your face — they can observe changes that a camera and algorithm cannot. This tool is a rapid, private starting point for exploration — it should not replace a professional consultation for definitive or important styling decisions.