Which season wears this color?
Paste any hex — or open a photo and tap the color you mean — and this measures it in CIELAB against all twelve published season decks with CIEDE2000, the same perceptual color distance a full reading uses. Nothing is uploaded: the math, and any photo you open, stays in your browser.
Check a color from a photo
No hex handy? Open a photo — a shop listing, a screenshot, the garment itself — and read the color straight off it. Tap the exact spot you care about; the tool reads a median of the surrounding pixels, so a stray highlight can't lie to you.
The picture is decoded and sampled on your device. It is never uploaded, and it disappears when you leave.
How to find a color's hex
- Screenshot the product photo. Crop to the fabric itself, away from shadows, folds, and any flash highlight — those are the room, not the garment.
- Eyedrop it. Any phone markup tool or desktop image viewer with a color picker will hand you a six-character code. In a browser you can right-click the image, choose inspect, and read it from the picker.
- Paste it above. With or without the hash. Bear in mind a product photo is itself lit by somebody's studio, so treat the result as the listing's color, not a guaranteed swatch.
Wardrobe staples, and who wears them
The same measurement, run on ten colors most closets already contain. Each row is scored against all twelve decks — the nearest season, the runner-up, and the season that color fights hardest.
| Color | Best fit | Also wears it | Fights |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black tee | True Winter close | Bright Winter | Soft Autumn |
| Optic white shirt | True Summer very close | Light Summer | Soft Summer |
| Navy blazer | True Summer very close | True Winter | Soft Autumn |
| Charcoal wool | Soft Summer close | Bright Winter | Soft Autumn |
| Camel coat | True Autumn very close | Dark Autumn | True Winter |
| Olive chino | Soft Autumn close | True Autumn | Light Spring |
| Burgundy knit | Dark Winter very close | Soft Summer | Soft Autumn |
| Cobalt shirt | True Winter very close | Bright Winter | Soft Autumn |
| Blush silk | Light Summer very close | True Winter | True Autumn |
| Emerald velvet | True Winter close | Dark Winter | Light Spring |
Checking a color against your own season
Already know your season? Then this tool answers the shopping question directly: paste the listing's color and find your season in the ranking. Best fit or close runner-up — buy with confidence. Near the bottom — the deck is telling you something.
Don't know it yet? The free read names it in about fifteen seconds, or start from what colors look good on me and work it out without a photo. Each of the twelve season pages carries its full palette with hex codes, so you can check by eye too.
How 16-season systems map to the twelve
If a quiz handed you a 16-season name, it still lands here. Sixteen-season systems subdivide the same sci\ART lineage this tool measures against, so their extra names live at the borders between neighbouring decks. Start from the 12-season deck inside your name — a Soft Summer Deep starts at Soft Summer — and read the qualifier as a pointer toward the sister season it borders.
That's also why this checker always shows runners-up: a border color, like a border person, genuinely belongs to more than one deck, and saying so beats hiding it behind a single label.
What this can and can't tell you
This measures a color, honestly and completely — where it sits in CIELAB, and how far it is from every season's published deck. What it cannot measure is you.
Whether a color flatters your face depends on your own undertone, depth, and contrast — and those come from a photograph with a known-neutral reference in it, not from a hex code. The free read names your season in about fifteen seconds; the full session measures it against a calibrated reference. The method is public if you want the whole pipeline first.
Questions
Take a screenshot of the product photo and open it in any image viewer or phone markup tool that has an eyedropper, then copy the value it reports. On a desktop browser you can also right-click the image, choose inspect, and read the color from the picker. Any six-character code like 0047AB works here, with or without the leading hash.
No, and this tool does not claim to. A hex code describes a garment, not a person. Which season is yours depends on your own undertone, depth, and contrast, and those are measured from a photograph with a known-neutral reference in it. What a hex can tell you is which season palettes that particular color already belongs to, and which ones it fights.
Because the twelve seasons overlap at their borders. Sister seasons share an undertone and differ on depth or clarity, so a color sitting between them will land near both decks. This tool says so in plain words rather than hiding it behind a single label: a color described as a very close match to two different decks genuinely suits both.
No. The color math runs entirely in your browser — no upload, no account, and nothing is sent to a server. That includes the photo option: a picture you open here is read on your own device, sampled, and never leaves the page. The calculation is the same CIELAB conversion and CIEDE2000 comparison used in a full reading.
Yes. Open a photo — a shop listing, a screenshot, a garment on your bed — and the tool reads its main colors on your device and lets you tap the exact spot you care about. The tap reads a median of the surrounding pixels, so one bright highlight won't lie to you. Bear in mind the photo was lit by somebody's room: treat the result as the listing's color, not a lab measurement.
You can sample one — open a selfie in the photo tool above and tap your cheek — but treat it gently. A skin hex from a photo is soaked in the room's lighting: warm bulbs push it golden, window light pushes it cool, and the same face can read as very different hexes in different rooms. It's a fine starting point for a moodboard. For an actual undertone answer, use a read that corrects the lighting first — that's what the free instant read is for.
Yes — paste or sample the color, then find your season in the ranked results. If your season is the best fit or a close runner-up, the color works; if it's near the bottom, the deck disagrees. The runner-ups matter: sister seasons share most of a border, so a color that's a very close match for your season's neighbour usually still wears well on you.
Sixteen-season systems take the same sci\ART lineage and subdivide it further, so their extra names live at the borders between neighbouring 12-season decks. If a 16-season quiz gave you a name like Soft Summer Deep, start from the 12-season deck inside that name — Soft Summer here — and read its sister seasons: the extra qualifier is telling you which border you sit near. This checker ranks against the twelve published decks, and shows runners-up precisely so border cases stay visible instead of hidden behind one label.