I couldn’t find this.
So I built it.

I am not a certified color analyst. I have no studio and no training in draping. What I have is a long-running obsession with why one shirt makes you look rested and the one next to it makes you look like you slept badly — and enough years of slow, expensive trial and error to know the difference is real.

A while back I had my own colors read. The answer came back Soft Summer, and I was a little put out about it. A bold orange dress I genuinely loved turned out to be a color my palette argues against, and so did camel-with-black, which had been my default pairing for years. But the result explained things I had already half-noticed: I get more compliments in my palette, and I look more like myself in it.

Then I went looking for a way to hand that to someone else without a $300 appointment. What I found was quizzes that guessed and consultations I could not honestly recommend. My background is consumer marketing rather than color theory, which mostly means I am good at making a complicated system legible and I am careful about what I claim.

Color analysis is a guide, not a rule book. You should still wear what you love. The guide just makes the morning easier.

— Heather

You give it a portrait in even light. Your browser finds your face, samples skin, hair and eyes, and measures three things: undertone (warm or cool), depth (light or deep) and how clear or muted your coloring is. Those three readings place you in one of the twelve seasons, and each season carries a palette that has been worked out over decades of practice.

Here is the honest limit. A photograph in your kitchen is not a draping in a studio. Lighting, white balance, makeup and a recent color treatment all move the numbers, and plenty of people sit genuinely on a border between two seasons. Take the result as a strong starting hypothesis, hold your season’s core colors up to your own face in daylight, and trust what you see there. It is free, and it is meant to be tested.

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It does not decide the colors. A season’s palette is set before any product goes near it, and pieces are picked to fit the published palette rather than the other way round.

A color season is a description of someone’s own coloring, so the twelve season pages need twelve different women — not one woman in twelve outfits. No single person has all twelve colorings, and a one-person brand cannot shoot twelve editorials. The models on those pages are generated rather than photographed.

Elsewhere it is a mix. Some of what you see is me, photographed; some is a digital twin built from my own footage, with my permission, which saves me filming every time there is something to say.

What is never generated: the writing, which is mine sentence by sentence. The palettes, which come from the established 12-season system rather than from a model. The product picks, which I choose myself. And me, when I answer a comment or an email.

The whole reading runs inside your browser, on your machine, and ends with the tab. Your photograph is never uploaded, and there is no server to upload it to. The Privacy page explains how to check that for yourself in about a minute.