20 Color Season Analysis: đŸ”„ The New Era of Colorimetry

Discover the most complete color theory: the 20 Color Season system. Find your perfect color palette and understand why previous systems were incomplete.

20 color season

If you have already read about the 16 Color Season theory that you will find here, then you already know that there are more seasons besides the 12 Color Seasons we traditionally recognize: Light Spring, Warm Spring, Bright Spring, Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Dark Winter, Dark Autumn, Warm Autumn, Soft Autumn, Soft Summer, Cool Summer, Light Summer.

While the 12 Color Season theory was already established, the 16 Color Season theory was also developed and existed before my study. However, the 20 Color Season theory did not exist before I studied the 12 and 16 Color Season systems.

What I did was add the missing seasons to the 16 Color Season theory: Light Winter, Bright Autumn, Bright Summer, Soft Spring.

And you might ask, why? What is the need to add more Color Seasons?

Well, for a very important reason. There are colors that do not exist in the 12 Color Season palettes. And I know that many people offer enormous color palettes, making you think that no more shades exist, so there is no need to add more Color Seasons.

However, adding millions of color shades to a person's palette is not correct. When you are sold a color palette for a Color Season that includes hundreds of colors, what you are actually getting are repetitive shades or even shades that belong to other Color Seasons.

If we determine the colors of each palette based on the defining color parameters (warm, cool, light, dark, soft, bright), the result is a limited number of colors. Realistically, this aligns more with the reality of fashion stores, as there is not an infinite variety of shades available in clothing, nor are there so many shades that the human eye can distinguish.

But there are some missing color shades that were not defined in the 12 Color Seasons. Many color specialists were likely mistakenly including them in the 12 Color Seasons without respecting the color parameters of each season.

Once I discovered this, I realized that there are physical appearances (people) whose combination of facial colors—hair, skin, eyes, eyebrows, lips—do not exist in the 12 Color Season system.

And this is one of the reasons why many people cannot find their Color Season.

In this case, I reached my own conclusion and developed a methodology to extend the 16 Color Season theory into the 20 Color Season theory, which is currently the most complete theory in color analysis.

These new Color Seasons have been defined by me. If you want to know your Color Season in this more complete theory, you can take my test here or explore the 20 Color Season theory in depth with my style chart here.

Thus, the 20 Color Season theory includes new seasons that accommodate many people with appearances (a combination of hair, skin, eyes, eyebrows, lips) who never found their place within the 12 Color Seasons and sometimes not even in the 16 Color Seasons:

  • Season Light Winter: It is bright, it is cool, but it is lighter than the other Winter seasons.

  • Bright Autumn: It is warm, it is dark, but it has a bit more vibrancy while still remaining soft.

  • Bright Summer: It is cool, it is light, but it has a bit more vibrancy than the other Summer subseasons.

  • Soft Spring: It is warm, it is light, but it is a bit softer than the other Spring subseasons.