True Autumn vs Deep Autumn
True Autumn and Deep Autumn agree on almost everything: gold beats silver, earth beats ice, and a pumpkin-toned lipstick beats a blue-pink one every day of the week. Warmth is not the question here. Depth is.
True Autumn is the golden middle of the family: medium depth, colors like camel, pumpkin, and moss worn at comfortable volume. Deep Autumn takes the same heat and turns the lights down: espresso, bottle green, rust at full saturation. The pair separates the moment you ask how dark your best colors are.
The fastest tell
Try camel, then espresso, at your neckline. If camel looks like your natural habitat and espresso slightly heavies your face, you are True Autumn. If camel feels a bit thin on you and espresso snaps everything into focus, you are Deep Autumn.
Axis by axis
Undertone
True Autumn
Fully warm: golden through and through.
Deep Autumn
Warm-neutral: golden heat with extra darkness in hair and eyes.
Depth
True Autumn
Medium: golden brown or auburn hair, warm hazel or amber eyes.
Deep Autumn
Deep: dark brown to near-black hair, deep brown or dark hazel eyes.
Signature colors
True Autumn
Camel, pumpkin, moss, tomato bisque, golden cream.
Deep Autumn
Espresso, rust, bottle green, aubergine, saffron.
The effect
True Autumn
Golden hour: warm, open, mid-volume.
Deep Autumn
Ember light: warm, concentrated, high volume.
The two palettes, side by side
Tap any swatch to copy its hex code. Full palettes, neutrals, and the colors each season should skip live on the season pages.
True Autumn
Deep Autumn
Which one are you?
Probably True Autumn if...
- →Camel, tan, and golden cream feel like neutrals you could live in.
- →Your hair has visible red, copper, or golden tones in daylight.
- →Very dark colors near your face feel heavier than you do.
- →Medium earth tones (moss, pumpkin) work at full size, not just as accents.
Probably Deep Autumn if...
- →Espresso and dark chocolate outperform every lighter neutral you own.
- →Your hair reads dark brown to black, even if it warms in the sun.
- →Full-saturation rust or bottle green looks natural, not loud, on you.
- →Light camel or beige near your face makes you look slightly faded.
The colors you share
The shared shelf is generous: rust, olive, warm teal, and burnt orange serve both seasons, and both should treat icy pastels as a hard skip. If you are between the two, wear the overlap and simply size the depth to the occasion: True Autumn keeps espresso for coats and shoes, Deep Autumn keeps camel for layering under something darker.
Settle it with your own face
Border cases are exactly where mirror-squinting fails. Lookcard reads undertone, depth, and contrast from one selfie, names your season (and the near-miss neighbor), and renders both palettes on you across a 15-page report. Your selfie is deleted after the report is built.
Questions
Is Deep Autumn just True Autumn with dark hair?+–
Close, but not quite. Deep Autumn also tolerates slightly cooler darks (a blackened green, a near-black plum) that pull True Autumn down. The hair is a clue; the behavior of very dark colors near your face is the proof.
Which season does auburn or copper hair belong to?+–
Usually True Autumn, where the warmth sits at medium depth. Deep Autumn hair runs darker: chestnut into near-black. If your copper is very dark, test the espresso rule before deciding.
Do both seasons avoid black?+–
Both do better without it near the face, but Deep Autumn gets away with it far more often, especially with a warm lip or warm metal added. True Autumn should reach for chocolate or dark olive instead. This is exactly the kind of call a personalized report makes for your actual coloring.
Do the two seasons share makeup shades?+–
Largely, yes: warm bronzes, brick and terracotta lips, and golden highlight suit both. Deep Autumn can push the same shades one step darker (a brown-wine lip, deeper bronze) where True Autumn keeps them mid-toned. If a dark lipstick swallows your face, that is a True Autumn vote.
More season mix-ups
Keep exploring: how AI color analysis finds your season, or a real sample report page by page.