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 a full photo analysis with 24 calibrated colors, the iOS app takes one selfie.
What's your natural undertone?
Look at the inside of your wrist in daylight. Vein color is the most reliable signal.
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?
Hold both up near your face in natural light. Cleaner skin = your match.
How does your skin react to sun?
Roughly. Not asking for SPF strategy.
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 —.
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 always get your top season plus a runner-up. The runner-up matters: about 30% of people read close to a sub-season boundary (Soft Summer vs Soft Autumn, Light Spring vs Light Summer, Bright Winter vs Bright Spring). If your top result doesn't quite feel right, the runner-up is usually the correct call.
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 reliably places you in the correct family (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter). Sub-season accuracy is around 70–80% for high-contrast features and lower for borderline cases. For sub-season certainty, a photo-based analysis (Tonebook's iOS app) gives a 24-color palette calibrated across all Fitzpatrick skin tones.
How do I find my skin undertone without a quiz?
Three signals converge: vein color on the inside of your wrist (blue/purple = cool, green = warm, mixed = neutral); metal preference (silver flatters cool, gold flatters warm); and sunburn tendency (easy burn often correlates with cool undertone).
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.