The 8 Hidden Color Seasons: What is the 20 Color Season Theory?

Many people asked me to investigate more about the theory of the 16 Seasons of Color, which I will explain below here but I inevitably came from the 16 Color Season theory, to the 20 Color Season theory.

And you will say: why?

The reason is because the 12 Color Season theory is great because it compresses the 20 Color Season theory. But the 16 Color Season theory in my opinion falls right in the middle of the 12 and 20 Color Season theory and is not very useful, it can be improved with the 20 Color Season theory and really make sense.

But: why is the 16 Color Season theory incomplete?

Because the 16 Color Season theory adds a few more seasons but their complementary colors on the wheel do not exist. We have to add more seasons and that is why we arrived at the 20 seasons theory.

SPOILER: it is likely that I could extend the theory even further (I should continue to analyze it even more) but currently the 20 Color Season theory is the theory with the most Color Seasons known (that is, it is also known by other people, not just me, and that is why I am passing it on to you here in this article).

20 Color Season Theory VS 12 Color Season Theory

The 12 Seasons of Color theory is a fabulous starting theory. It is the basis to easily understand colorimetry (that's why I recommend you my ebook of the 12 Color Season theory).

Basically without this theory it is very complex to understand the 20 Color Season theory as it is more complex.

The 12 Seasons of Color brings together 3 seasons under the 4 main seasons Winter, Summer, Autumn y Spring: Light Spring, Warm Spring, Bright Spring, Bright Winter, Cool Winter, Dark Winter, Dark Autumn, Warm Autumn, Soft Autumn, Soft Summer, Cool Summer, Light Summer.

However, the 20 Color Season Theory uses the value and chroma parameters to apply them to all Color Seasons and create new sub-seasons that help identify all the physical appearances that in the 12 seasons theory would be encompassed in other less accurate seasons.

As in my case, under the 12 seasons theory it would be a Soft Summer season, but under the 20 Color Season theory it would be a Soft Winter.

If you have that doubt if you can belong to another season that is not one of the 12 Color Seasons, but belong to one of the 20 Color Seasons, then use my Canva test templates in the store.

So, finally in the 20 Seasons theory these new seasons are added:

Dark Spring, Soft Winter, Light Autumn, Dark Summer
Light Winter, Bright Autumn, Bright Summer, Soft Spring

But then there are no repeated seasons?

I want to solve this doubt, in case you have wondered if adding more seasons does not repeat the color palettes.

They are not repeated. And I will give you an example

The Soft Winter season is different from the Soft Summer season. Because although Winter is not a Soft season but Bright, what Season Soft Winter does is to cover people with little contrast between hair, skin and eyes, but who have saturated or slightly saturated colors in hair and skin for example.

In this way, the new seasons encompass appearances that are more complex to distinguish, and give us much more play when it comes to having a much more accurate result.

Even for stylists, what the 20 Color Season theory does is that it helps to give a better result to the client, and therefore have a happy client. Here is my Canva Stylist's template of the 20 Season deliverable report for your customer.

Porque muchas personas tienen dudas cuando les dan sus resultados y es debido justamente a esto, a que su season con la teoría de las 12 Color Season no acierta exactamente con los colores que le sientan mejor.

And to make it easier for you, here below If you join the newsletter I will be able to send you the 12 Seasons Colorimetric wheel where you will see how the colors are placed on the wheel and what are their opposites in the theory of the 20 Color Seasons.

What do you think about the 20 Color Season theory? Keep looking below for more articles that will interest you.