The Four Seasonal Colour Palettes
The four Seasonal Colour Palettes
Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Are you confused about Colour?
If you find the seasonal colour palettes confusing, you’re not alone.
Since the 70’s the information about what colours suit you and what the colours are, has gone through many changes.
In this blog I want to outline what the four seasons are and what most colour systems are based upon.
The Four Seasons
As you may or may not know the four seasonal colour palettes are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
They are just like the four seasons in nature.The temperature value may be different though.
Winter is classified as cool
Summer is classified as cool
Spring is classified as warm
And Autumn is classified as warm. There are two warm seasons and two cool seasons.
Warm and cool Colours
A warm colour or tone is yellow or red based. A cool tone is blue or grey based. Are all blues and greys cool? No they are not. Are all yellow and red tones warm? No they are not.
This is why it’s important the colour consultant spends much time learning about the temperature of each colour. Is the colour warm or cool?
Is this easy? No this is not. The reason being there are over 16 million colours. With time and experience one can learn what category any colour belongs.
What is a Winter Colour?
The Winter Colours are Deep, Strong, Dominant. Black and pure white are the bookends with all the primary power colours featuring.
Primary, red, green, blue, yellow. Don’t forget a pure Orange, a deep Chocolate brown. The darker greys and deeper vibrant pinks are there as well. Very dark navy's, electric blues and ink navy's.
Originally Beige featured and the icy pale versions of colour, were in the Winter Colours, but I question their right to belong.
What is a Summer Colour?
Summer Colours are cool as well as the winter colours, but are much more muted and subtle than their deeper counterparts.
Summer colours are pastel, muted, soft, but there is the strength of a chocolate brown and a maroon or burgundy. I like to include all cool beiges, soft cool taupes, very soft cool greys, silver and rose gold as well as grey khakis.
There is no orange in the Summer palette, but the cool corals and watermelon pinks belong very nicely.
What is a Spring Colour?
Spring colours are exactly what the season suggests. They are bright and airy. Buttercup yellows and light teals. Lots of warm caramel browns and beige's.
Bright reds with peaches and creams and apricots. Don’t forget the lime greens. Often these colours are confused with Summer Colours because of their value. But Spring Colours appear brighter and more yellow based.
Spring Colours aren’t quiet as strong as Autumn colours obviously.
What is an Autumn Colour.
Again Autumn is another Deep season, meaning these colours are very strong.
They appear to be much heavier than the Spring Colours. Deep warm Browns, olive greens, pumpkins, deep creams. Rich warm purples and deep teal blues. The yellows of the Autumn season are very orangey yellow and the reds are very bright yellow reds.
Still confused about Colour?
So if you’re still confused about your colours, don’t be. Have a personal one on one colour analysis in my studio in Ramsgate Sydney or for an accurate online analysis with lots of moving forward steps try my online colour analysis for an instant result.
Ros at Your Colours and style. “Be beautiful in your colours”
