Deep Autumn color palette: a cozy corner painted in its colors

Autumn · Color season

Deep Autumn color palette

Deep and warm

Also called Dark Autumn

Deep and warm, like a library with the fire lit.

Your coloring is rich and deep, with warmth underneath. Dark, spicy colors like garnet, forest or chocolate hold their own beside you; pale pastels disappear on you.

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The Deep Autumn palette: 24 colors

With their names and hex codes. The first twelve are the essentials; the other twelve round out the palette.

The essentials

  • Coffee#4E2A1E
  • Garnet#7A2E2E
  • Copper#9C4A1A
  • Amber#C27C0E
  • Mustard#B8860B
  • Olive#445E33
  • Pine#1F4E4A
  • Walnut#5C4033
  • Bronze#8B5A2B
  • Charcoal#2F3E46
  • Sienna#A0522D
  • Cream#EADBC0

More colors

  • Paprika#A23B24
  • Brick#8E3B2A
  • Pumpkin#C25A1C
  • Saffron#D08A1E
  • Forest green#2F4A2C
  • Petrol blue#154A52
  • Teal#1F6B66
  • Plum#4A2A3A
  • Chocolate#3E2418
  • Mahogany#6B2A1F
  • Camel#B08850
  • Oat#DCC8A5

Deep Autumn neutrals, metal and lips

Neutrals

  • Cream #EADBC0
  • Camel #B08850
  • Chocolate #3E2418

Metal

Bronze and copper

Your white

  • Cream #EADBC0

Your black

  • Chocolate #3E2418

For your lips

  • Brick #8E3B2A
  • Garnet #7A2E2E
  • Paprika #A23B24

Deep Autumn hair and makeup

Hair

Deep Autumn hair color keeps its depth and warmth: dark chestnut, mahogany, walnut, warm espresso. Black hair glows with fine copper or amber highlights, blonde hair can deepen with bronze lowlights, and gray tends to look richest as a warm salt-and-pepper. Platinum, ash blonde and blue-black usually look thin beside such rich coloring.

Makeup

Deep Autumn makeup can go dark and warm. A sienna blush sets up brick, garnet or paprika lips, while bronze, amber or forest green shadow with a chocolate liner holds its own on the eyes. Skip baby pink, sky blue and icy lilac, which tend to disappear beside this depth.

Deep Autumn colors to avoid

The ones that dull this coloring most, next to the face.

  • Baby pink #F6C6D9
  • Sky blue #A8D0F0
  • Icy lilac #ECE4F4
  • Dove gray #BFC8D6

Where it sits

Every season is a point on three axes: undertone, depth and chroma. The one that defines it is marked.

Undertone: Warm

CoolWarm

Golden, peach or olive undertones: colors with a touch of yellow light you up.

Depth: Deep Defining trait

LightDeep

Dark hair, eyes or skin: rich, deep colors hold their own beside you.

Chroma: Medium

SoftBright

Neighboring seasons

The two closest to Deep Autumn: if a color here doesn’t convince you, look at theirs.

Opposite season

The palette furthest from Deep Autumn.

How to wear it

  • Wear your colors close to your face: a top, a scarf, your glasses. Further away, they matter less.
  • Build on your neutrals, then add one or two colors from the palette.
  • Try them in daylight, next to your face: the right ones even out your skin and light up your eyes.

A test can’t see you, so take it as a starting point: try your colors next to your face, in daylight.

All twelve seasons