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12-season colour analysis quiz.
Answer 12 questions about your skin, hair, eyes and what you already know suits you. You get your closest season out of 12, a runner-up to try, and a palette for each. No photo, no email, no sign-up. It runs in your browser and nothing you pick is sent or stored.
Your answers
Look in a mirror by a window in daylight, with no makeup or tan if you can. Pick “Not sure” whenever you are unsure rather than guessing.
0 of 12 answered
Result
Answer all 12 questions and press Find my season.
How this quiz scores you
The 12-season system is a stylist tradition: it sorts people by how their natural colouring relates to warm or cool, light or deep, and soft or clear colours, and names the groups after the four seasons. This page does not claim to measure any of that. It turns your answers into three numbers and picks the nearest of twelve reference points. The whole method is below, so you can check it.
The three axes
- Warmth, cool to warm: the undertone, from blue-pink to golden-yellow. Questions: wrist veins, gold or silver, sun reaction, hair, eyes, white or cream, lip and blush shade.
- Depth, light to deep: how light or dark your colouring is overall. Questions: skin depth, hair, eyes, pastels or deep shades, black near the face.
- Clarity, soft to clear: how muted or vivid your colouring is. Questions: hair, eyes, contrast level, bold colours, white or cream, lip and blush shade, black near the face.
The logic, step by step
- Each answer carries a small weight, from −2 to +2, on any of the three axes it speaks to. “Not sure” options carry zero.
- The weights are summed per axis, divided by the largest sum that axis could reach, and multiplied by 2, then limited to between −1 and +1. A reading near 0 means neutral or mixed.
- Each of the 12 seasons has a reference point on the three axes (shown in the table below). The page measures the straight-line distance from your three numbers to each reference point.
- The closest is your top season and the second closest is your runner-up. If they are less than 0.12 apart the page calls it a close call.
The weights and the reference points are TNAADO's own design choices based on how the seasons are commonly described. They are not fitted to data. The palette swatches are also our own hex values, not any brand's official palette.
Season reference points
| Season | Warmth | Depth | Clarity |
|---|
Where Munsell fits in
The Munsell system describes any surface colour by hue, value (lightness) and chroma (colour strength). The axes here borrow that framework as labels: undertone loosely echoes hue, depth echoes value, and soft versus clear echoes chroma. Munsell itself says nothing about seasons. Nothing on this page is a Munsell measurement, because a quiz cannot measure skin, hair or eyes.
Limits
- Self-description is subjective, and the same person can answer differently on a different day.
- Daylight, screen settings, tans, dyed hair and makeup all shift what you see.
- Season boundaries and even names differ between stylists and apps.
- A season is a guide to experiment with, not a rule about what you can wear.
Sources
- Munsell hue, value and chroma: Munsell Book of Color (Munsell Color / X-Rite) and ASTM D1535, Standard Practice for Specifying Color by the Munsell System. Cited only for the meaning of the three axes.
- The season system itself has no scientific source. It is a stylist tradition and this tool treats it as one.
Cite this page: TNAADO Tools, “12-Season Colour Analysis Quiz,” tools.tnaado.ca/color/colour-season-analysis-quiz/. A style-guide quiz, not a validated instrument.
Colour season quiz FAQ
Is colour season analysis scientific?
No. The season system is a stylist tradition that grew popular in the late twentieth century. There is no peer-reviewed study showing that people fall into twelve groups or that wearing your season's colours is more flattering in a measurable way. This quiz borrows only the vocabulary of the Munsell colour system (hue, value, chroma) to label its three axes. Treat the result as a starting point for experimenting, not a verdict.
Why does a quiz with no photo give a different answer from a stylist or another quiz?
Because the inputs differ. A quiz relies on how you describe yourself, and that shifts with lighting, mood, tan, dyed hair and your own sense of words like soft or clear. Stylists drape fabric and judge by eye in daylight; photo apps are thrown off by camera white balance and screen settings. Different systems also draw the season boundaries in different places. Disagreement between them is normal.
What is the difference between the 4-season and the 12-season system?
The 4-season version sorts people into Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter, mostly by warm or cool undertone. The 12-season version splits each season three ways by the other axes. Spring becomes Light, Warm and Bright; Summer becomes Light, Cool and Soft; Autumn becomes Soft, Warm and Deep; Winter becomes Deep, Cool and Bright. Names vary between sources; some call Warm Spring True Spring, for example.
My top two seasons are very close. Which should I trust?
Neither is more reliable than the other when the gap is small. When the page flags a close call, try the runner-up too: wear a few swatches from each palette near your face in daylight and keep whichever looks healthier. Colours the two seasons share are the safest buys.
Does my result mean I can never wear other colours?
No. The palettes are suggestions. Colour near your face matters most, so a shade outside your palette is easier to wear as trousers, shoes or a bag than as a top or scarf. Personal taste, skin condition, the occasion and what you already own all count for more than a label.
Is anything I choose sent or saved?
No. Scoring runs in your browser, nothing is transmitted, no photo is used, no email is asked for and nothing is stored. Reloading the page clears your answers.
What this is, and what it is not
This is a popular style guide, not a scientific test. No peer-reviewed research validates the 12-season system, and results vary with lighting, screens and the system used. The palettes are our own illustrative hex values and will look different on different displays. Use the result as a prompt to try colours in daylight, not as a rule.