Summer · color season
True Summer: your palette,
and what to leave on the rail.
True Summer is fully cool and softly muted. Here is the palette that follows from that, the neutrals to build on, and how to wear them together.
- 8 core colors
- silver at the wrist
- 10 minutes to get yours
The palette
The eight colors True Summer is built on.
These are the shades that do the most for cool skin at a medium value. Worn near the face they read as health; the further a color sits from them, the harder it works against you.
- Raspberry
- Dusty blue
- Emeraldtone it down
- Mauve
- Soft pink
- Light forget-me-not
- Medium denim
- Lavender
Start here
Raspberry
If you buy one thing in your palette, make it this. It is the color True Summer is most itself in.
Neutrals and metal
What everything else hangs on.
Your neutrals are the trousers, the coat and the shirt you own in three colors. Get these right and the rest of the wardrobe has somewhere to sit.
- Soft white
- Light gray
- Medium gray
- Soft navy
- Dusty blue
How to combine it
Cool muted layers, medium contrast, no orange or warm yellows.
Not sure you are a True Summer?
Most people are between two seasons until something measures them. Ours reads your photos against your own answers and gives you the palette, not a guess at it.
More on True Summer
The rest of Summer
FAQ
True Summer questions.
True Summer is fully cool and softly muted. The quick check is whether cool colors at a medium value look better on you than their opposite, and whether silver suits you better than the other metal. That gets you close. The reason people land between two seasons is that the eye compares badly under mixed light, which is what a measured analysis is for.
Nothing dramatic. The colors furthest from your palette pull attention to shadows and to any unevenness in your skin, so you look tired rather than the color looking wrong. It shows most in the piece nearest your face and barely at all below the waist, which is why the palette matters more for a shirt than for trousers.
Check your neutrals above. Black is on the palette for some seasons and on the skip list for others, and where it is not, the fix is not to give up black but to keep it away from your face: the same garment reads completely differently as trousers and as a collar. Your own report gives a verdict on black specifically, with the reason.
No. True Summer is cool at its root, and that is the axis the whole system turns on. Two seasons can share a value and a chroma and still want opposite colors, because the undertone decides which version of a color suits you.
That is what the analysis does, but not from one photo and not from the photo alone. It reads five photos against your own answers about how you burn, what your veins look like and which metal suits you, and your answers outrank the photos where the two disagree. Your photos are deleted after your report is generated, usually within fifteen minutes and always within 24 hours. They are never used to train AI models.
Dress by the data
Ten minutes now, or another year of guessing in fitting rooms.