Autumn family
Deep Autumn Color Palette
Smoldering warmth — the drama of embers, not fireworks.
Deep Autumn is the warm, deep, moderately clear season of the Autumn family. The Deep Autumn palette holds 16 colors — led by Oxblood, Burnt Copper and Deep Forest — plus 6 neutrals that stand in for black and white, and 6 shades to avoid. Deep Autumns wear gold best.
What are the Deep Autumn colors?
All 16 Deep Autumn colors, each with its hex code — screenshot it, match a paint chip to it, paste the values straight into a shopping filter. Oxblood, Burnt Copper and Deep Forest carry the season; the rest are here so you can dress a whole week from the palette rather than one outfit.
Oxblood#71261F Burnt Copper#9C4A1E Deep Forest#2F4A2C Aubergine Brown#4E2A33 Dark Mustard#A8791C Brick#8E3B22 Deep Teal#16535C Olive Night#4A4A22 Garnet#7C2432 Tobacco#7A5427 Spiced Wine#813038 Bronze#8C6A2B Pine#25573D Rust Deep#9B441D Warm Charcoal#443B33 Molasses#59331D
What are the Deep Autumn neutrals?
These 6 do the quiet work — the coat, the trousers, the knit you wear weekly. Black and optic white are not among them. Black Coffee (#2A1F17) and Cream Caramel (#EFDDBC) are the Deep Autumn versions of “black” and “white”, and swapping to them is the single change that makes a wardrobe look considered instead of harsh.
Dark Chocolate#3E2A1A Black Coffee#2A1F17 Camel Deep#B08A55 Olive#66622F Warm Stone#9C8C74 Cream Caramel#EFDDBC
What colors should a Deep Autumn avoid?
Nothing here is a bad color — it is a color that is wrong next to Deep Autumn coloring. Each of the 6 below misses the palette on one of the three axes, measured against the 16 colors above rather than asserted.
Icy Pastel Blue#C9E4F5 Baby Pink#F8C8DC Cool Lilac#C8A2C8 Neon Yellow#F4F51F Silver Grey#C0C4CC Powder Blue#A7C7E7
| Icy Pastel Blue #C9E4F5 | Too light and too cool — it washes out and takes your contrast with it. |
|---|---|
| Baby Pink #F8C8DC | Too light and too cool — it washes out and takes your contrast with it. |
| Cool Lilac #C8A2C8 | Too blue-based and too pale — it drains the gold straight out of the skin. |
| Neon Yellow #F4F51F | Too saturated and too pale — the garment wins and your face becomes the backdrop. |
| Silver Grey #C0C4CC | Too light and too cool — it washes out and takes your contrast with it. |
| Powder Blue #A7C7E7 | Too blue-based and too pale — it drains the gold straight out of the skin. |
Every one of them has a replacement inside the palette — the Deep Autumn colors to avoid, with the swap for each.
How do you know if you’re a Deep Autumn?
Deep Autumn coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), deep in depth, and moderately clear.
| Undertone | warm (golden/yellow-based) |
|---|---|
| Depth (value) | deep |
| Clarity (chroma) | moderately clear |
| Best metals | Gold |
| Palette size | 16 colors · 6 neutrals · 6 to avoid |
| Family | Autumn, alongside Soft Autumn and True Autumn |
| Signature colors | Oxblood, Burnt Copper and Deep Forest |
If two of those three feel right and one doesn’t, you are probably one of the neighbouring seasons rather than this one. Undertone is the axis to settle first — start with the free undertone quiz or the longer guide to finding your undertone, then come back and see whether the Deep Autumn palette still looks like yours.
What makeup suits a Deep Autumn?
| Lips | oxblood, brown-berry and spiced brick — depth is your signature |
|---|---|
| Blush | deep terracotta, used as sculpt as much as color |
| Foundation | warm undertone with depth honored — never lightened out |
The rule is the same as the wardrobe rule: keep makeup on the palette’s temperature and let the intensity match your own. Deep Autumn makeup in full — lipstick, blush and foundation.
What hair color suits a Deep Autumn?
For Deep Autumn coloring: espresso, black-brown with warmth, deep auburn — richness over lightness. Hair is the largest block of color you wear, so a shade that fights the palette undoes the wardrobe work before you have dressed. Best hair colors for a Deep Autumn.
Should a Deep Autumn wear gold or silver?
Gold. Deep Autumn coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), so a warm metal picks up the same base the palette runs on; silver sits cold and flat against it. Deep Autumn jewelry & metals.
How does a Deep Autumn put an outfit together?
Deep earth column dressing; one ember accent (garnet, rust) near the face. Keep the strongest palette color nearest the face — that is where the color is actually doing its job — and let the 6 neutrals carry everything below the shoulders.
Which everyday colors can a Deep Autumn wear?
18 of the colors people actually shop for land inside the Deep Autumn palette. Each verdict is measured — the color’s reference hex against all 22 Deep Autumn swatches — not decided by name.
- Blackthe default wardrobe neutral, and the one that most often fights warm, light coloring
- Creamwarm off-white, the softer stand-in for pure white
- Burgundydeep blue-based wine red
- Rustearthy burnt orange with brown in it
- Terracottaclay-toned warm orange-pink
- Peachsoft warm orange, lighter and gentler than coral
- Plumdeep cool purple with red in it
- Tealblue-green with depth
- Forest Greendeep muted green
- Sage Greensoft grey-green
- Olive Greenwarm yellow-based green
- Khakiwarm sandy neutral-green
- Mustardmuted warm yellow with brown in it
- Camelthe warm mid-tone neutral that replaces beige
- Beigelight warm neutral
- Chocolate Browndeep warm brown
- Charcoalnear-black cool grey
- Goldthe warm metal, as a wearable color
Shop the Deep Autumn palette
7 picks, each anchored to a color you just saw — so they sit inside your range instead of near it. Clothes and jewelry are chosen for the Autumn palette, which the three autumn seasons share; the lip and cheek shades are picked for Deep Autumn specifically, because that is where a family parts ways.
Heads up: links below may be affiliate links — if you buy through them, Palettewell may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only pick items that genuinely fit your palette.
Crew sweater, burnt orangeQuince · $60 · Rust
Passage jacket, Desert OliveMadewell · $118 · Olive
Compass coin pendantgorjana · $75 · Antique Gold
Washable silk blouse, ivoryQuince · $72 · Warm Cream
Teal bouclé scarfFable England · $52 · Deep Teal
Matte lipstick (Diva)MAC · $25 · Oxblood
Liquid blush (Resilience)Rare Beauty · $25 · Burnt Copper
Deep Autumn questions
Can a Deep Autumn wear black?
Black is not one of the Deep Autumn colors. The deepest neutral in the Deep Autumn set is Black Coffee (#2A1F17), and that is the anchor to reach for when an outfit wants a black — it holds the same weight without flattening Deep Autumn coloring.
What colors should a Deep Autumn avoid?
The 6 colors Deep Autumn should avoid are Icy Pastel Blue, Baby Pink, Cool Lilac, Neon Yellow, Silver Grey and Powder Blue. Each one misses the palette on undertone, depth or clarity rather than on taste — the measured reason for each is on this page, with a palette swap for every one of them on the Deep Autumn colors-to-avoid page.
Does a Deep Autumn wear gold or silver jewelry?
Gold. Deep Autumn coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), so a warm metal picks up the same base the palette runs on; silver sits cold and flat against it.
What is the best hair color for a Deep Autumn?
Deep Autumn hair follows the same undertone rule as the clothes: espresso, black-brown with warmth, deep auburn — richness over lightness. The point is to keep hair, skin and palette on one temperature so nothing in the picture argues.
How many colors are in the Deep Autumn palette?
16 palette colors plus 6 neutrals, and Palettewell publishes every one with its hex code. Add the 6 shades to avoid and the Deep Autumn page carries 28 named values in total.
Is Deep Autumn warm or cool?
Deep Autumn is warm (golden/yellow-based). On the other two axes it is deep in depth and moderately clear, and those two are what separate Deep Autumn from the other Autumn seasons.
What is the difference between Deep Autumn and Soft Autumn?
Both are Autumn seasons, so both share a warm base. They part on value (Deep Autumn is deep, Soft Autumn is medium) and chroma (Deep Autumn is medium, Soft Autumn is soft). In practice that is Oxblood, Burnt Copper and Deep Forest against Toasted Almond, Salmon Dust and Olive Moss.
Go deeper on Deep Autumn
Seasons people confuse with Deep Autumn
- Soft Autumn paletteGolden haze — warmth turned down to a murmur, rich but never loud.
- True Autumn paletteRich, earthy and golden — October light made wearable.
- True Autumn vs Deep AutumnBoth palettes, side by side
- Soft Autumn vs Deep AutumnBoth palettes, side by side
- Deep Autumn vs Deep WinterBoth palettes, side by side