Find your color season.
Eight short questions — hair, skin, eye, contrast — placed against the 12-season Sci·ART grid. You'll get your most-likely season, your runner-up, and a starter palette. For the full paid photo report and palette, the iOS app takes one selfie.
What's your natural undertone?
Use your impression from comparing warm and cool colors near your face in similar lighting. This is a styling preference, not a skin measurement. Unsure is a valid answer.
How would you describe your skin depth?
Compared to other people, not in absolute terms.
Your natural hair color?
Pre-dye. If your natural hair has shifted with age, pick what you have now.
Your eye color?
If you have a mixed or hazel eye, pick what dominates in daylight.
What's your overall contrast?
Look at a black-and-white photo of yourself. Big gap between skin/hair/eyes = high contrast. Everything similar value = low.
Which metal looks most flattering?
Compare accessories near your face in similar lighting. Choose the look you prefer; this does not establish a skin undertone.
Which kind of white do you prefer wearing?
Compare a cream fabric and a cooler white in similar light, if you have them. This is another preference, not a test you need to pass.
Which colors do people compliment you in most?
Reverse-engineer from existing data: when do people say "that color looks great on you"?
You read as —.
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Why this season fits
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If this doesn't quite feel like you, the runner-up was —.
You have your season. The app turns it into what to wear — 5 free outfits a day, built from your palette.
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Want your palette saved?
Get your — palette and seasonal color tips by email.
How the 12-season color quiz works
The 12-season system (also called Sci·ART) groups personal coloring along three axes: hue (cool vs warm undertone), value (light vs deep skin/hair), and chroma (bright vs soft contrast). This quiz collects signals across all three and weights them against each season's profile.
You'll get a top season plus a runner-up. If your top result does not feel right, compare both palettes in neutral light and treat the quiz as a starting point rather than a certainty.
What color season am I?
Your color season is determined by the dominant trait among hue (cool/warm), value (light/dark), and chroma (bright/soft). High-saturation features land in a Bright or True season; muted features land in a Soft season; very light or very deep coloring narrow further within the family.
How accurate is an online color season quiz?
A quiz depends on how accurately you assess your own coloring, and there is no validated accuracy percentage for this quiz. Borderline cases benefit from comparing adjacent palettes in neutral light. Tonebook's iOS app reports confidence and an adjacent season when a photo result is close.
How do I find my skin undertone without a quiz?
Compare warm and cool colors near your face under similar lighting, and note which combinations you enjoy. You can also compare gold and silver accessories as a styling preference. This quiz does not measure undertone, and it does not use vein color or sunburn tendency as proof. Choose unsure when a comparison is unclear.
What's the difference between Soft Summer and Soft Autumn?
Both are low-chroma seasons — muted, dusty palettes work best. Soft Summer leans cool (mauve, dusty rose, sage with a blue cast). Soft Autumn leans warm (sage with a yellow cast, camel, terracotta). The deciding factor is the cool-vs-warm tilt in your skin and hair.
Is the 12-season system real or trendy?
The 12-season system traces to Suzanne Caygill's mid-20th-century color work and was systematized by Sci·ART in the 1980s. It refined the older 4-season palette by adding sub-seasons that explain why two people in the same family wear different shades best. The system is widely taught in image-consulting curricula today.