Soft Summer color palette
The full Soft Summer colour palette — twelve named colours with their hex values. Three are printed below for free; the rest, the colours to avoid and the metals sit behind one optional step.
- Temperature
- cool / neutral
- Value
- medium
- Chroma
- soft
Muted and cool — dusty rose and blue-grey are your home, and very bright colours shout over you.
Your palette
Three of the twelve colours are free. The remaining nine are reserved below the gate.
Stop guessing in the shop — your full palette on one card
You have your season and three of its twelve colours. The card holds all twelve with their hex values, the three to avoid, and which metal works on you — on one page, sized to keep on your phone and hold against a garment at the rail.
- The remaining nine colours, with their names and hex values
- The three colours to avoid, with their hex values
- Which metals work on you — gold, silver, rose or bronze, with the reason
- The printable palette card you can take shopping
Opens a short sponsor step, then brings you straight back to this page with the card printed. Your answers stay in your browser either way.
Compare against your neighbours
You are between two seasons — compare them edge to edge above.
Hold your signature against each neighbour. The difference is the tie-break.
Common questions
- What colours are in the Soft Summer palette?
- The Soft Summer palette has twelve colours. The first three — Blue Grey, Dusty Rose and Soft Teal — are free. The full set is behind a single optional gate.
- What should I avoid as a Soft Summer?
- The colours that work least on a Soft Summer are the ones that fight its axes — pulling warm against a cool-neutral season, or sitting clearer and brighter than a soft one. Three specific colours are named on the full palette card.
- What metals suit a Soft Summer?
- Metals follow temperature rather than season name: a cool-neutral season is served by metals in the same direction. The exact metals for Soft Summer are named on the full palette card.