Summer color palette

All 48 Summer colors, with hex codes — the three Summer palettes hold 48 swatches between them and 48 distinct colors, with no swatch shared between two Summer seasons. Wear them near the face, where the color is doing its job. Each season’s own page carries its 16 colors, its neutrals and its shades to avoid.

The three Summer seasons are True Summer, Light Summer and Soft Summer. They share one undertone and part on depth and clarity: True Summer is medium in depth and moderately clear; Light Summer is light in depth and moderately clear; Soft Summer is medium in depth and soft and muted.

The same 48 colors sorted by hue instead of by season — each swatch filed by where it sits in CIELAB, not by what it is called. The 5 largest groups in the Summer palette are below with their hex codes.

18 distinct neutrals across the three Summer seasons — the coat, the trousers, the knit worn weekly. Grey Navy (#3C4A63) is the deepest and Soft White (#F6F4F0) the lightest, and most Summer outfits are built between those two with one palette color near the face.

True Summer: blended cool tones; grey navy over black; matte fabrics over shine. Jewelry: silver.

Light Summer: tonal pastels head-to-toe; swap black for grey-blue or soft white. Jewelry: silver.

Soft Summer: tonal layering of greyed pastels and mid-tones; texture adds the interest color would. Jewelry: both, leaning silver.

Undertone puts you in the Summer family; two more questions — depth and clarity — pick the season inside it. Depth is how light or deep your natural coloring runs (light to medium across this family) and clarity is how bright or muted it is (soft to medium). True Summer: medium depth, medium clarity. Light Summer: light depth, medium clarity. Soft Summer: medium depth, soft clarity. The free Palettewell undertone quiz settles the first axis; the full analysis uses a quiz plus one selfie to settle all three.

Take the free undertone quiz to settle warm against cool, then get the full analysis to place yourself inside the Summer family.

No. There is no warm Summer in the 12-season system — all three Summer seasons are cool, and that shared undertone is what makes them a family. Measured across the palettes, the warmest-leaning of the three is Soft Summer, whose colors sit closest to neutral on the yellow-blue axis, so “warm summer” usually points at it. If your coloring reads warm, the comparison to read is Soft Summer vs Soft Autumn — that crossover, not a season that does not exist, is what the phrase is reaching for.

Soft Summer vs Soft Autumn — both palettes side by side, and the test that separates them.

Yes — Soft Summer is the muted member of the family, and it is a real season: soft and muted, medium in depth, 16 colors of its own. If “muted summer” is what you searched, Soft Summer is the palette you want.

The Soft Summer palette in full — every color with its hex code.