What's My Color Season

Seasonal color analysis is a style and image-consulting method that sorts your natural coloring into one of four palettes named after the seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Popularized by Carole Jackson's 1980 bestseller Color Me Beautiful and built on color-theory foundations from the Bauhaus, it answers a practical question, which colors make you look healthy, rested, and radiant, and which ones wash you out.

Your season is decided by three measurable qualities of your skin, hair, and eyes: undertone (warm and golden versus cool and pink), value (light versus deep), and chroma (clear and bright versus soft and muted). Warm, clear, and light coloring reads as Spring; cool, soft, and light as Summer; warm, muted, and deep as Autumn; cool, clear, and high-contrast as Winter. Knowing your season turns getting dressed into a shortcut, you reach for the shades that already harmonize with your face.

JobCannon's color analysis quiz asks 12 quick questions about your undertone, contrast, and which colors flatter you, then maps your answers to your best-fit color season and palette. It's a fast, fun starting point, for a precise reading, a professional drape in natural light is the gold standard, but the quiz gets most people to the right season in a couple of minutes.