Discovering the colors that enhance your look is made easy with color analysis. It considers your overall appearance, especially the shades of your eyes, hair, and skin, assigning you to one of twelve color seasons. Each season offers a personalized color palette, carefully crafted to complement your natural coloring and create a harmonious look.
Ever noticed how some clothing colors can make you appear tired and washed out, while others instantly enhance your look? It's not just your imagination; there's a reason behind it, and it's connected to color theory.
Choosing the wrong colors for your clothes can leave you looking unwell or not your best. To build a wardrobe that boosts your confidence, it's crucial to identify the colors that flatter you the most. That's where color analysis becomes a valuable tool to guide you in discovering the shades that suit you best.
Color Theory:
To delve into seasonal color analysis, it's essential to grasp the three fundamental aspects or dimensions of color. They are:
1. Hue & Temperature
(Undertone)
2. Chroma / Clarity
Chroma refers to a color's saturation, indicating its brightness or muted quality. Alternatively, you can consider chroma in terms of how 'close to grey' a color appears.
Vivid, bright colors are characterized by high saturation, appearing distinct from grey. As saturation diminishes, a color approaches grey, resulting in a more subdued and muted appearance.
3. Value (Depth)
Value indicates the depth of a color, reflecting how light or dark it appears.
Colour can be in harmony of your features or go against it as shown in the photo example below:
Seasonal color analysis isn't a recent idea. In fact, our contemporary comprehension of harmonious colors stems from the 19th-century impressionist painters and their grasp of the seasons. To authentically capture each season, they had to discern the colors that truly embodied each one.
This implies that as nature transitions through the seasons, it undergoes a shift in its color palette. Consider the changing hues of landscapes across the four distinct seasons— the vibrant tints of spring, the soft tones of summer, the earthy shades of autumn, and the icy hues of winter. This transformation in colors is a result of the way light interacts with the natural world. With each shift in the sun's position, the world is bathed in a fresh light, creating this dynamic play of colors.
As we are integral parts of the natural world, it's only logical to extend these color palettes to ourselves.
The reason the standard analysis doesn't suit everyone is the absence of a crucial element: the third color dimension, 'chroma.' Chroma discerns vibrant, saturated colors from subdued, greyish ones.
As shown in the photo below, the Chroma/Color Dimension can significantly influence color analysis. Bright colors accentuate features, while the softer or lighter shades may work against color contrast.
Color Analysis with Twelve Seasons
I utilize the 12-color analysis seasons to assess my clients:
- Bright Spring = bright + warm
- True Spring = warm + bright
- Light Spring = light + warm
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- Light Summer = light + cool
- True Summer = cool + muted
- Soft Summer = muted + cool
- Soft Autumn = muted + warm
- True Autumn = warm + muted
- Dark Autumn = dark + warm
- Dark Winter = dark + cool
- True Winter = cool + bright
- Bright Winter = bright + cool
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