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All 12 color palettes
Every seasonal palette, every swatch named — and every hex one tap from your clipboard.
The Palettewell palette viewer holds all twelve seasonal palettes — 16 best colors, 6 neutrals and 6 to skip for each season, 336 named swatches in total. Pick a season, tap any swatch to copy its hex, and take those codes straight into a shopping filter or a moodboard.
Browse the twelve palettes
Tap any swatch to copy its hex code.
The Light Spring palette
Sunlit, fresh and delicate — like the first warm week of the year.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The True Spring palette
Warm, clear and alive — you wear color the way a garden does.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The Bright Spring palette
High-voltage warmth — clear, saturated color is your neutral.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The Light Summer palette
Cool morning light — airy, luminous and effortlessly soft.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The True Summer palette
Cool, calm and quietly magnetic — the elegance of dusk over water.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The Soft Summer palette
Misty, muted and refined — colors that whisper rather than shout.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The Soft Autumn palette
Golden haze — warmth turned down to a murmur, rich but never loud.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The True Autumn palette
Rich, earthy and golden — October light made wearable.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The Deep Autumn palette
Smoldering warmth — the drama of embers, not fireworks.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The Deep Winter palette
Midnight contrast — cool depth that makes jewel tones look inevitable.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The True Winter palette
Pure cool clarity — icy brights and absolute contrast.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
The Bright Winter palette
Neon frost — the loudest cool colors, worn like they were obvious.
Best colors (16)
The colors that do the work — wear these near your face.
Neutrals (6)
The base layer: coats, trousers, bags, the things you rebuy.
Colors to skip (6)
Not banned — just the shades that make you do the heavy lifting.
Worth saying plainly: browsing palettes is a starting point, not an answer. Every palette here is real, but picking the one that is yours by eye is the part people get wrong — the full analysis reads your actual coloring from a photo, and that is what settles which of these twelve you are.
What are the 12 seasonal color palettes?
Seasonal color analysis sorts people on three axes — undertone (warm or cool), value (light or deep) and chroma (bright or muted) — and the twelve seasons are the combinations that turn out to be useful. Four families, three seasons each: Spring and Autumn are the warm ones, Summer and Winter the cool ones.
Each season then gets a palette: a fixed set of shades that share your coloring’s undertone, sit at a compatible depth, and match your natural level of contrast. That is the whole trick. Colors that agree with your coloring let people look at you; colors that fight it make them look at the garment, or at the shadows under your eyes.
If you don’t know your season yet, the undertone quiz narrows twelve to six in about two minutes, and the twelve-season guide explains what separates the rest.
What are the three parts of a palette for?
| Best colors (16) | The colors that do the work. Wear these near your face — tops, knitwear, scarves, lipstick, the top half of everything. This is where a palette earns its keep. |
|---|---|
| Neutrals (6) | The base layer you rebuy: coats, trousers, denim, bags, shoes. Getting the neutrals right is what makes a wardrobe combine without thinking, because everything else has to sit against them. |
| Colors to skip (6) | Not forbidden — just expensive. These are the shades that drain you, so they need makeup and good light to carry. Keep them away from your face and they cost you nothing. |
How do you use a palette when you’re shopping?
Copy the hexes, don’t memorise the names. “Warm Ivory” means nothing to a shop filter; #FBF0DC means something to your eye when you hold it against a photo of a jumper. Copy your season’s hexes into a note on your phone and you have a reference you can actually check against in a changing room.
Judge in daylight, near your face. A palette is about what happens between a color and your skin, so hold the garment up under a window rather than under shop lighting, which is tuned to make everything look good.
Treat the palette as a direction, not a rulebook. Nothing in the shop will be an exact hex match, and it doesn’t need to be. What you are checking is whether a color leans the right way — warm or cool, light or deep, clear or muted. Close enough is close enough.
Spend the money on the neutrals. The coat and the trousers get worn a hundred times; the fun color gets worn ten. Get the six neutrals right first and the rest of the wardrobe stops fighting itself.
Where can you read about each season?
Every palette here has a full guide behind it — the traits that define the season, the makeup and hair direction, the metals, and the colors to avoid with the reasoning attached.
- Light SpringLight Spring coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), light in depth, and moderately clear.
- True SpringTrue Spring coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), medium in depth, and clear and true.
- Bright SpringBright Spring coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), medium in depth, and bright and highly saturated.
- Light SummerLight Summer coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), light in depth, and moderately clear.
- True SummerTrue Summer coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), medium in depth, and moderately clear.
- Soft SummerSoft Summer coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), medium in depth, and soft and muted.
- Soft AutumnSoft Autumn coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), medium in depth, and soft and muted.
- True AutumnTrue Autumn coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), medium in depth, and moderately clear.
- Deep AutumnDeep Autumn coloring is warm (golden/yellow-based), deep in depth, and moderately clear.
- Deep WinterDeep Winter coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), deep in depth, and moderately clear.
- True WinterTrue Winter coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), medium in depth, and clear and true.
- Bright WinterBright Winter coloring is cool (pink/blue-based), medium in depth, and bright and highly saturated.
Palette questions, answered
What are the 12 seasonal color palettes?
Twelve fixed sets of colors, one per season, each built around a combination of undertone, depth and clarity. Every Palettewell palette holds 16 best colors, 6 neutrals and 6 colors to skip — 28 named shades with hex values you can copy.
Can I copy the hex codes?
Yes — that is what the viewer is for. Tap or click any swatch and its hex goes to your clipboard, ready to paste into a shopping filter, a design tool, a moodboard or a note on your phone.
How do I know which palette is mine?
You need your season first. The free undertone quiz halves the field to six, and the full Palettewell analysis reads your coloring from a selfie and names one. Browsing palettes without knowing your season is useful for learning the system, not for shopping.
Are the “colors to skip” actually banned?
No. They are the shades that make you do the work — the ones that pull attention to shadows rather than to you. Wear them below the waist, in a bag, or in a print where they are not sitting against your face.
Do these palettes match other color analysis systems?
The twelve-season framework is standard, so the names will look familiar. The exact shades are ours: Palettewell builds and tunes its own palettes rather than licensing a set, which is why every swatch here carries a real hex rather than a color name in prose.