What colors are in the warm autumn palette?

Rust, ochre, olive, brick, bronze and pine are the core shades. Neutrals are warm brown, khaki and deep camel. Every colour is warm and moderately muted at chroma -0.70, which is what separates this palette from the equally warm but clear Warm Spring.

What is the difference between Warm Autumn and Warm Spring?

Chroma. Both are fully warm at 1.00. Warm Autumn sits at -0.70, meaning muted and earthy. Warm Spring sits at 0.65, meaning clear and fresh. Compare a full-strength rust with a clear marigold.

Can a Warm Autumn wear navy?

A warm, soft navy can work as a substitute for black, but it is never as strong as the season's own deep neutrals. Bronze, chocolate and dark olive all do the job better.

What lipstick suits a Warm Autumn?

Brick, terracotta, warm brown-reds and copper. Blue-based reds and cool pinks pull against the palette, and the effect is usually visible immediately.

Why does grey look wrong on me?

Most grey sold in shops is cool and slightly muted, which matches this season on neither axis. Warm Autumn is fully warm at 1.00 and moderately muted at -0.70, so a cool grey sits against the skin rather than with it. Warm greige, khaki and taupe fill the same wardrobe gap and agree with the colouring.

Warm Autumn colour palette

Fully warm at 1.00 with medium depth and contrast, and colours that are rich and earthy rather than clear.

Last reviewed 14 September 2026By Sravya

Editorial saree reference for the warm autumn palette

The four scores that place it

colour

Temperature

1.00

warm, golden base

Depth

0.00

medium

Contrast

0.00

medium

Chroma

-0.70

muted, softened

The palette

RustRust, #B9572B
OchreOchre, #C58B27
OliveOlive, #687A3C
BrickBrick, #9B4B3F
BronzeBronze, #A56A43
PinePine, #3F7164

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 warm autumn colour palette is built from rich, earthy shades at full warmth: rust, ochre, olive, brick, bronze and pine. These are natural pigment colours, warm and slightly muted rather than bright, sitting at the maximum warmth score of 1.00 with a chroma of -0.70 that keeps them earthy.

Colouring in this season is golden and rich: skin with a golden or bronze cast, hair from auburn through copper to warm chestnut, and eyes in warm hazel, amber or golden brown. Chroma sits at -0.70, meaning colours are muted rather than clear. That is the axis separating it from Warm Spring, which shares the identical temperature but needs bright, fresh colour. Same warmth, opposite brightness. The same season is written as the warm autumn color palette in American spelling, and autumn is called fall in the United States, so warm fall and warm autumn describe this palette too.

Is this the warm autumn color palette, or warm spring?

Confirm full warmth. Gold should beat silver decisively, and cream should beat optical white without hesitation.

Then test richness. Hold a full-strength rust or ochre against your face, then a clear marigold. Warm Autumn takes the rust comfortably where a Warm Spring would look dulled by it.

Check depth is medium at 0. If the darkest earth colours suit you best, Deep Autumn at depth 1.00 is the better fit.

Warm autumn color palette vs warm spring

Mistaken for
Warm Spring
Identical temperature at 1.00. Chroma separates: -0.70 muted here against 0.65 clear there. Rust against marigold.
Mistaken for
Deep Autumn
Deep Autumn is darker at depth 1.00 against 0 here, and slightly less warm at 0.55. If very deep colours suit better than mid ones, 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 should read like natural pigment: warm, rich and slightly earthy. Anything clean, icy or blue-based works against the whole palette.

Your colours

This is the season most people picture when they hear autumn colours, and it is the one that can wear them at full strength.

Worth reaching for

Rust, brick and terracotta
Ochre, mustard and warm bronze
Olive, moss and deep pine
Warm brown, khaki and bronze as neutrals

Works against it

Icy pastels and blue-based pinks
Black and pure cool grey
Optical white next to the face
Clear, bright primary colours

Swap black for bronze

Use deep bronze, warm chocolate or dark olive wherever you would reach for black.

Black is cool and clean, and this palette is warm and earthy. Deep warm neutrals give the same anchoring weight while agreeing with the colouring instead of arguing with it.

Where people go wrong with a warm autumn color palette

Being sorted as a spring because of warmth
Both families are warm. Chroma is what separates them. A Warm Autumn in clear spring brights looks slightly artificial rather than golden.
Avoiding green
Olive, moss and pine are among the strongest colours available to this season. The instinct to avoid green usually comes from experience with cool blue-greens, which are a different thing entirely.
Wearing optical white shirts
It is the standard smart neutral and it is the wrong one here. Cream or ivory does the same job and keeps the warmth intact.

Common questions

Sources and review record

Color Palette Analysis
Seasonal color analysis
The temperature, value and chroma framework behind the four season families.
Last checked 2026-07-31
Color Palette Analysis
Seasonal color analysis chart: 12 seasons
The twelve-season grouping and neighbouring season descriptions.
Last checked 2026-07-31
Color Palette Analysis
What is color analysis?
Why undertone is considered alongside depth, chroma and contrast.
Last checked 2026-07-31

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.