Soft Autumn Color Palette

The Soft Autumn oranges & corals are Salmon Dust (#D08E76), Terracotta Haze (#BF7051), Faded Coral (#D68A74) and Copper Rose (#B67865) — they carry the most pigment in a muted palette, and they sit right at the Soft Autumn palette’s mid-depth. All 4 are Soft Autumn palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The Soft Autumn greens are Warm Sage (#A3A87B), Soft Teal (#6D9A93), Marsh Green (#7E8E6B) and Dusty Turquoise (#79A8A4) — muted and warm-leaning, in step with the rest of the palette, and they sit right at the Soft Autumn palette’s mid-depth. All 4 are Soft Autumn palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

The Soft Autumn yellows & golds are Buttermilk (#EBDCB2) and Muted Gold (#C7A855) — they carry the most pigment in a muted palette, and they sit at the light end of the Soft Autumn palette. Both are Soft Autumn palette colors, each on this page as a named swatch with its hex code.

Yes — this page is the Soft Autumn color chart. It carries 16 palette colors, 6 neutrals and 6 shades to avoid: 28 swatches in all, every one with its name and its hex code, and the palette is also grouped by hue family (oranges & corals, greens, yellows & golds and the neutrals) so you can pull one family out of the chart. The hex codes are rendered as text rather than baked into an image, so a screenshot keeps them readable and copy-paste still works.

Soft Autumn is also sold as Muted Autumn, Warm Soft Autumn and Autumn-Summer — the same season under a different system's naming. SciART-derived charts say “True”, “Bright” and “Deep” where older books say “Warm”, “Clear” and “Dark”, and the 12-blueprint and flow systems name a blended season after the two it sits between, which is where Autumn-Summer comes from. Whichever name you arrived with, the palette on this page is the one it points at. Style-essence labels like “ingenue” or “gamine” are a different system again — they type body and style rather than color, so they change how a garment is cut, not which colors suit you.

No — Jet Black (#141414) is on the Soft Autumn avoid list. It sits outside the palette on depth and undertone both, so it drops a hard line under the face. The deepest neutral in the Soft Autumn set is Olive Brown (#6E6448), and that is the anchor to reach for instead.

The 6 colors Soft Autumn should avoid are Jet Black, Icy Pink, Electric Blue, Pure White, Hot Fuchsia and Cool Grey. 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 Soft Autumn colors-to-avoid page.

Both, leaning gold. Soft Autumn coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), so either metal works — warm golds and antiqued brass are the safer default, and bright silver is best kept brushed rather than mirror-shiny.

Soft Autumn hair follows the same undertone rule as the clothes: soft golden depth: bronde, caramel balayage, warm light brown — avoid platinum and blue-black. The point is to keep hair, skin and palette on one temperature so nothing in the picture argues.

16 palette colors plus 6 neutrals, and Palettewell publishes every one with its hex code. Add the 6 shades to avoid and the Soft Autumn page carries 28 named values in total.

Soft Autumn is warm (golden/yellow-based). On the other two axes it is medium in depth and soft and muted, and those two are what separate Soft Autumn from the other Autumn seasons.

Both are Autumn seasons, so both share a warm base. They part on chroma (Soft Autumn is soft, True Autumn is medium). In practice that is Toasted Almond, Salmon Dust and Olive Moss against Rust, Mustard Gold and Forest Olive.