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Deep Autumn colour palette

Deep at 1.00 and warm at 0.55, with moderate contrast and colours that stay rich rather than bright.

Last reviewed 14 September 2026By Sravya

Editorial saree reference for the deep autumn palette

The four scores that place it

colour

Temperature

0.55

slight warm, golden base

Depth

1.00

deep colouring

Contrast

0.40

slight high, striking

Chroma

-0.65

muted, softened

The palette

  • ChestnutChestnut, #713A2C
  • AmberAmber, #8A5A1F
  • ForestForest, #3F5B32
  • MaroonMaroon, #7A3F45
  • MossMoss, #4C5540
  • TealTeal, #23615A

Each axis runs from about -1 to +1 and is scored separately. These are editorial centres for a repeatable comparison, and the hex values are screen references rather than measured standards. Scoring the four apart is what lets the tool tell you which single call was the shaky one, instead of handing you a season and no reasoning.

Find my colour season

The deep autumn colour palette centres on warm, saturated shades with genuine depth: chestnut, mahogany, forest green, dark olive, maroon, deep teal, amber and bronze. These are earth tones darkened rather than brightened, built on the maximum depth score of 1.00 with a clear warm lean at 0.55.

Colouring in this season is dark and warm: deep brown or black hair, skin from warm medium through to deep, and eyes in dark brown, deep hazel or dark warm green. Temperature sits at 0.55 rather than the full 1.00 of Warm Autumn, and chroma is muted at -0.65. Depth is therefore the leading quality, warmth the second, and the combination is what separates it from Deep Winter, which shares the depth but leans cool. The same season is written as the deep autumn color palette in American spelling, and autumn is called fall in the United States, so deep fall and deep autumn describe this palette too.

Is this the deep autumn color palette, or deep winter?

Confirm depth. If light and pastel colours consistently look weak on you while dark colours look natural, you are in a deep season.

Then temperature. Hold a deep chestnut or forest green against your face, then a cool aubergine. Deep Autumn prefers the warm one.

Check chroma. At -0.65 colours are rich rather than bright. If genuinely vivid colour suits better, Deep Winter is the closer fit.

Deep autumn color palette vs deep winter

  • Mistaken for

    Deep Winter

    Same depth at 1.00. Temperature separates them: 0.55 warm here, -0.35 cool there. Forest green against aubergine is the comparison.

  • Mistaken for

    Warm Autumn

    Warm Autumn is warmer at 1.00 but sits at medium depth. If mid-depth rust suits better than very dark chestnut, look there.

Every season, every colour

12 seasons · 72 shades

Light Spring

Warm Spring

Clear Spring

Light Summer

Cool Summer

Soft Summer

Soft Autumn

Warm Autumn

Deep Autumn

Deep Winter

Cool Winter

Clear Winter

These are the actual palettes the colour tool works from, not a sample. Point at one to hold it. Twelve seasons rather than the old four, because four cannot separate someone light and cool from someone deep and cool.

The principle behind every suggestion below

Colours must carry real depth and real warmth together. Light colours disappear against this colouring and cool ones sit oddly on it.

Your colours

This palette is built from the darkest end of the autumn range, and it is one of the few seasons that can wear genuinely dark colour head to toe without looking severe.

Worth reaching for

  • Chestnut, mahogany and deep maroon
  • Forest, deep moss and dark olive
  • Amber, dark gold and deep bronze
  • Deep teal and dark warm brown as neutrals

Works against it

  • Pastels and light colours of any kind
  • Icy or clear cool brights
  • Pure optical white
  • Cool light grey

Black is workable but not best

Deep chocolate, dark olive or deep teal all beat black next to the face.

Unlike the lighter autumn seasons, this one has the depth to carry black. It just has better options, because black is cool and this colouring leans warm.

Where people go wrong with a deep autumn color palette

  • Wearing pastels to look softer

    At depth 1.00, light colours create a gap the face cannot bridge, and the result reads washed out rather than soft. Softening here means going muted, not going light.

  • Being sorted as Deep Winter

    The depth is identical, so people sort on that alone. Temperature is the axis that separates them, and Deep Autumn in cool winter colours looks slightly grey.

  • Avoiding dark colours in summer

    Deep colouring does not become lighter in July. A deep teal or dark olive in a light fabric solves the seasonal problem without abandoning the palette.

Common questions

Sources and review record

Not sure this is you?

The tool scores temperature, depth, contrast and chroma separately across all twelve seasons, then shows which of the four calls was closest to a boundary. That is the honest answer to why different sites give you different seasons.

Find my colour season

The twelve colour seasons

Or see all the guides.

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