Personal color analysis — pick one photo and we read your skin, hair, eye and lip tones to place you in a season (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) and one of 12 sub-types, with your 12 best colors, the shades to avoid, and matching lip, hair and jewelry picks. The photo is processed in your browser and never uploaded.

How to use it

1. Choose a photo — pick one from your library or take a selfie. The face engine (about 4 MB) downloads once; the photo is shrunk to 1024 pixels on its long side and read on your device. A black-and-white photo triggers a request for a color one.
2. Result card and confidence — a card with one of the 12 types (name, tagline, a short reading) is followed by "n% confidence".
3. Where your coloring sits — a dot on each of three sliders: cool to warm, light to deep, soft to bright. A dot near the middle means you sit on a boundary.
4. Draping preview and sampled colors — a crop of your face between a band of your best colors and a band of your worst, then chips showing the skin, hair, eye and lip colors actually read from the photo, each with its hex code.
5. Best 12, worst 3, styling — the type's palette of twelve colors, three colors to avoid, and lip, hair and jewelry suggestions.
6. Save or share — "Save palette" renders a portrait image (1080×1350) with the type name and its twelve colors; "Share result" makes a link carrying only the type. "See all 12 types" on the first screen opens any type's card and best palette.

What is personal color?

It's the group of colors that harmonize with your natural skin, hair and eyes and make your face look brighter and healthier. Coloring is split into warm (golden undertone) and cool (pink-blue undertone), then by value (light to deep) and clarity (soft to bright). That gives the four seasons, and each season splits into three sub-types — 12 in total. A red that flatters a Spring (coral red) is not the red that flatters a Winter (true red).

The four seasons at a glance

• Spring — light, warm, clear. Coral, peach, yellow-green. Gold jewelry.
• Summer — light, cool, soft. Lavender, rose pink, sky blue. Silver jewelry.
• Autumn — deep, warm, muted. Camel, olive, terracotta. Gold and bronze.
• Winter — deep, cool, vivid. Navy, wine, pure white, black. Silver and platinum.

The 12 sub-types

• Light Spring — Clear as cream in morning sun
• Bright Spring — Vivid color wakes you up
• True Spring — Golden warmth at the center
• Light Summer — Soft and clear like a misty morning
• Soft Summer — Greyed, gentle colors look expensive on you
• True Summer — Cool blue undertone, crisp and fresh
• Soft Autumn — Earth and dry grass, quietly warm
• True Autumn — Deep golden warmth, like fall leaves
• Deep Autumn — Rich, weighty colors are yours
• Bright Winter — High contrast, primaries welcome
• True Winter — Cold, clear and sharp
• Deep Winter — Dark colors never looked so expensive

Getting an accurate result

Color depends heavily on light. Shoot in natural daylight — near a window or outdoors — and avoid fluorescent or warm indoor bulbs. Skip makeup, colored contacts and app filters, face the camera and let your face fill the frame. If your hair shows above the forehead we read hair color too, which sharpens the result. Black-and-white photos can't be analyzed.

How the analysis works

We locate 468 facial landmarks, sample skin from both cheeks, the forehead and the chin, the iris centers for eye color, the lip region, and the hair above the forehead, then correct for color casts using the whites of the eyes as a neutral reference. Colors are converted to the Lab color space to measure the skin's hue angle (golden vs. pink), lightness and chroma, and the contrast between skin, hair and eyes. Those give a position on three axes — warm/cool, light/deep, soft/bright — which decides your season and sub-type. The same photo always gives the same result.

How the three axes become a type

Each axis runs from −1 to +1. The warm/cool axis weighs the skin's hue angle at 60%, hair color at 25% and eye color at 15%; the light/deep axis weighs skin lightness at 70% and hair lightness at 30%; the soft/bright axis weighs skin chroma at 45%, skin-to-hair contrast at 35% and skin-to-eye contrast at 20%. If hair or eyes could not be read, their share is dropped and the rest is rescaled.

Season	Condition	Sub-type split
Spring	warm side · light side	very light → Light; clear → Bright; otherwise True
Summer	cool side · light side	very light → Light; muted → Soft; otherwise True
Autumn	warm side · deep side	very deep → Deep; muted → Soft; otherwise True
Winter	cool side · deep side	very deep → Deep; clear → Bright; otherwise True

"Very light" and "very deep" mean the light/deep axis passes ±0.35; "clear" means the soft/bright axis is at +0.25 or above, "muted" −0.2 or below. Confidence grows the further the warm/cool and light/deep dots sit from the center and ranges from 55% to 99%. Around 60% you are on a boundary between two seasons, so the neighboring season's palette is worth a look as well.

Lighting correction and what cannot be read

Only when the whites of the eyes are bright enough and nearly colorless are they used as a gray reference, and the correction is limited to a factor of 0.8 to 1.25 per channel, enough to undo a mild yellow or blue cast but not a strongly colored light. Hair is read only when more than 35% of the pixels in the band above the forehead differ clearly from skin; with a hat or a crop that cuts off the forehead you see "Couldn't read your hair" and the verdict rests on skin and eyes alone. Eye color is sampled from the center of the iris, so colored contacts are read as your eye color.

Privacy

Your photo is read only on your device; it is never sent to a server or stored. The share link and saved image contain only your type and palette, not the photo.

Frequently asked questions

A professional analyst gave me a different season

A professional drapes fabric against your face and judges by eye; this tool judges from color statistics read out of a photo's pixels, so lighting, makeup, filters and hair dye all enter the result. If two or three bare-faced daylight photos point to the same season, treat that as your season and use the three sliders and the confidence figure to judge the sub-type.

Does dyed hair change the result?

Yes. Hair is a secondary input at 25% of the warm/cool axis, 30% of light/deep and 35% of soft/bright, so an ash dye pulls toward cool and soft while an orange-brown pulls toward warm. For your natural coloring, shoot with roots grown out or cover the hair with a hat so the verdict uses skin and eyes only.

How do I read the three sliders?

How far the dot sits from the center is the strength of that quality. A warm/cool dot near the middle means neutral skin that can wear both sides; a light/deep dot at one end means colors of that value suit you especially well.

Is it for men too?

Of course. Only skin, hair and eye colors are read and sex is never asked, so the criteria are identical; read the lip suggestion as a shirt or knit color and use the jewelry metal as given.

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