Autumn colour palette
Warm, rich and earthy — the colours of a forest floor.
Autumn is the warm, muted half of the wheel. Autumn palettes are golden-based with depth and dust: rust, olive, camel, mustard, deep teal. If your colouring is warm but strong bright colours overwhelm you, you are somewhere in Autumn.
All three Autumns share warmth and a degree of mutedness. The line against Spring is clarity — Spring colours are clean, Autumn colours have earth in them. The line against Winter is temperature: Autumn has no true black and no icy anything.
The three autumn seasons
"Autumn" on its own is too broad to shop from. These three are where it actually splits.
The combined autumn palette
Colours that work across the whole family — safe ground while you narrow down which sub-season you are.
- Salmon#D98A76
- Rust#C1440E
- Mahogany#7B241C
- Soft terracotta#C4705C
- Pumpkin#D2691E
- Deep brick#943126
- Muted rust#B5654A
- Burnt orange#B7410E
- Tomato red#A93226
- Warm rose beige#C98F7A
- Sienna#A0522D
- Dark rust#6E2C00
- Dusty brick#B07C7C
- Brick red#8B3A2E
- Deep amber#B9770E
- Soft mulberry#A86F7E
- Mustard#B8860B
- Dark mustard#9A7D0A
- Warm mushroom#8E7C6E
- Goldenrod#DAA520
Autumn palettes in detail
Frequently asked
What is the autumn colour palette?
Autumn is the warm, muted half of the wheel. Autumn palettes are golden-based with depth and dust: rust, olive, camel, mustard, deep teal. If your colouring is warm but strong bright colours overwhelm you, you are somewhere in Autumn. The palette on this page combines the strongest colours from all three autumn sub-seasons — Soft Autumn, True Autumn, Deep Autumn — so it is a good starting point before you narrow down.
What are the three autumn seasons?
Soft Autumn is moderately warm, medium in depth and strongly soft. True Autumn is strongly warm, medium in depth and moderately soft. Deep Autumn is warm, strongly deep and balanced in clarity. Each has its own palette page with full hex codes.
How do I know which autumn I am?
All three Autumns share warmth and a degree of mutedness. The line against Spring is clarity — Spring colours are clean, Autumn colours have earth in them. The line against Winter is temperature: Autumn has no true black and no icy anything. Once you know you are in the autumn family, the remaining question is which characteristic dominates — depth, temperature or clarity. Our free analysis scores all twelve seasons and tells you which autumn you land on, and by how much.
Is autumn a warm or cool season?
Warm. Every colour in a autumn palette is golden-based. If gold jewellery flatters you more than silver, and cream suits you better than pure white, you are in a warm family.