Autumn color palette
Warm, rich and earthy, the colors 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 coloring is warm but strong bright colors overwhelm you, you are somewhere in Autumn.
All three Autumns share warmth and a degree of mutedness. The line against Spring is clarity, Spring colors are clean, Autumn colors 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
Colors 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 color 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 coloring is warm but strong bright colors overwhelm you, you are somewhere in Autumn. The palette on this page combines the strongest colors 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 colors are clean, Autumn colors 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 color in a autumn palette is golden-based. If gold jewelry flatters you more than silver, and cream suits you better than pure white, you are in a warm family.
How does autumn color analysis work?
Autumn color analysis places your coloring on three axes, depth, temperature and clarity, then reads which of the three autumn seasons your skin, hair and eyes lean to. The family is the easy half; the useful answer is the season underneath it. Our free tool scores you against all twelve seasons from your answers and one photo, so you get the autumn result and how close the runners-up are, not just a label.
Is autumn a color season?
"Autumn" is a color family, not one of the twelve color seasons on its own, it splits into Soft Autumn, True Autumn, Deep Autumn. People searching "autumn color season" usually mean the whole autumn group, which is what this page covers. The specific season underneath is one of those three, and each has its own palette page.