You can find your color season in about two minutes with TruHue's free color analysis quiz — no email required, no paywall, no upsell. The quiz evaluates your undertone, depth, chroma, and contrast to match you with one of the 12 seasons in the Sci/Art system.
Your result comes with a Color Passport: a personalized breakdown of your four dimension scores, your best and worst colors, and instant YAY/OKAY/NAY ratings on over 30,000 makeup and clothing products. Everything is free. Everything is immediate. And if you are between seasons, TruHue is designed for that too.
How the TruHue Color Analysis Quiz Works
Here is exactly what happens, step by step.
Not sure which season you are?
Take the free color analysis quiz — 2 minutes, no email required. Then every product in this post gets scored for your palette.
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Go to truhue.app/app/quiz on your phone or computer. No account required, no email gate. The quiz loads immediately and you can start answering right away.
Answer Questions About Your Coloring
You will answer a short set of questions about your undertone clues (vein color, jewelry preference, how your skin reacts to sun), your natural hair color, and your eye color. These are not the "test" — they give the algorithm the context it needs to weight each dimension correctly. A person with naturally auburn hair and hazel eyes is being evaluated differently than someone with jet-black hair and dark brown eyes, even if their skin undertones overlap.
Optional: Upload a Selfie for AI Analysis
If you want extra precision, upload a selfie in natural daylight with no makeup or filters. TruHue's AI extracts objective color data from your skin — actual measurements of hue, saturation, and lightness at the pixel level — and uses it to refine the result. This step is optional. The quiz works without it, and many users get an accurate season from the questions alone.
Best selfie conditions: indirect natural daylight near a window, bare skin, neutral background.
Get Your Season Result + Color Passport
You receive your season — one of the 12 color seasons — along with your Color Passport. The Passport includes your undertone, depth, chroma, and contrast scores, a personalized palette of your best colors, a list of colors to avoid, and immediate YAY/OKAY/NAY product ratings across TruHue's 30,000-product database.
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What You Get After the Quiz
Your result is not just a season label. Here is what you walk away with.
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Color Passport. A personalized card showing your season, your four dimension scores (undertone, depth, chroma, contrast), and a visual palette of your best colors. Think of it as your cheat sheet for every shopping trip.
YAY / OKAY / NAY product ratings. Once you know your season, TruHue scores products against your palette. YAY means the product's colors are a strong match. OKAY means wearable but not ideal — good for experimenting. NAY means the colors clash with your coloring and you should probably skip it. This is where color analysis stops being theory and starts being a tool you use at Sephora.
30,000-product database. Browse or search across makeup, clothing, and accessories. Every product in the database is scored against your personal palette — not a generic season palette, but the specific scores the quiz calculated for you.
Best and avoid colors. A clear list of colors that make you look alive, rested, and vibrant — and a list of colors that wash you out or make you look tired. These are not vague ("wear earth tones"). They are specific swatches you can reference while shopping.
Your dimension breakdown. Scores for undertone, depth, chroma, and contrast that explain why you are your season. This is the difference between "you're a Soft Autumn" and "you're a Soft Autumn because your warm-leaning undertone combines with medium depth and low chroma." The second is useful. The first is just a label.
How TruHue Compares to Other Color Analysis Quizzes
There are roughly three ways to find your color season right now. Here is how they compare.
| Method | Cost | Time | How It Works | Limitations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-person analyst | $200+ | 1-2 hours | Physical fabric drapes held near your face under controlled lighting, evaluated by a trained analyst. | Expensive, limited availability in many cities, results depend on the individual analyst's eye. |
| Other online quizzes | Free (some paywall results) | 2-5 minutes | 3-5 self-reported questions ("are your veins blue or green?"). Most use the basic 4-season model. | Rely entirely on your self-assessment, which is the thing you are taking the quiz because you cannot do. Often too generic to be actionable. |
| AI photo tools | Free to $30 | 1-3 minutes | Upload a photo and an AI assigns a season based on pixel analysis alone. | Highly sensitive to lighting, camera white balance, and background colors. Inconsistent results across photos. |
| TruHue | Free | ~2 minutes | Combines guided questions with optional AI photo analysis. Evaluates undertone, depth, chroma, and contrast across the 12-season Sci/Art system. | Not a replacement for professional draping — designed as a strong starting point and a daily-use product scoring tool. |
TruHue sits in a specific niche: it is free, it combines two input methods (questions + optional AI photo) for better accuracy than either alone, and it is backed by a hand-curated product database that turns your result into something you use every day. We are honest about what it is and is not — it is not a professional draping, and we do not pretend otherwise. It is the best free starting point available, and it pairs well with a professional analysis if you decide to invest in one later.
What Are the 12 Color Seasons?
The 12-season system (also called the Sci/Art system) divides human coloring into four season families — Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter — each with three sub-seasons. Your sub-season is determined by which of the four dimensions (undertone, depth, chroma, contrast) is most dominant in your coloring.
Here is a quick map of all twelve.
Spring
- Light Spring — warm, light, fresh
- Warm (True) Spring — warm, clear, golden
- Bright Spring — warm, vivid, high-contrast
Summer
- Light Summer — cool, light, soft
- Cool (True) Summer — cool, muted, blue-based
- Soft Summer — cool-neutral, low chroma
Autumn
- Soft Autumn — warm-neutral, muted, earthy
- Warm (True) Autumn — warm, rich, golden
- Deep Autumn — warm, deep, saturated
Winter
- Cool (True) Winter — cool, bold, blue-based
- Bright Winter — cool, vivid, high-contrast
- Deep Winter — cool, deep, dramatic
Each season has a distinct palette of colors that harmonize with that particular combination of undertone, depth, and chroma. When you wear colors from your season's palette, your skin looks clearer, your eyes look brighter, and you generally look more awake and healthy. When you wear colors from the wrong season, you can look washed out, sallow, or tired — even if the garment itself is beautiful. The full 12-season guide breaks down each season in detail.
What Happens If You're Between Seasons?
This is one of the most common concerns with color analysis, and it is legitimate. Very few people land perfectly in the center of a single season. Most people have coloring that leans toward one season but borrows characteristics from a neighboring one. If you are a Soft Autumn, for example, some Soft Summer colors might also work for you. If you are a Bright Winter, some Bright Spring shades might be fine too.
TruHue's YAY/OKAY/NAY system is built for exactly this situation. Products are not scored as binary "match or no match." They are scored on a spectrum:
- YAY — strong match for your palette. Wear with confidence.
- OKAY — wearable, not ideal. These are the borderline colors that work for some people in your season but not others. Good for experimenting.
- NAY — poor match. These colors are likely to work against your natural coloring.
If you are between seasons, you will notice that your OKAY category is wider — more products land there instead of in the YAY or NAY extremes. That is by design. The system gives you room to experiment in the gray zone rather than forcing a hard boundary that does not exist in reality.
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Is the quiz really free?
Yes. The quiz, your season result, your Color Passport, your best/avoid color lists, and product ratings are all free. There is no email gate, no paywall on the results, and no upsell screen between you and your season. TruHue makes money from optional premium features, not from locking your quiz result behind a payment.
How accurate is the quiz?
The quiz evaluates the same four dimensions professional analysts use: undertone, depth, chroma, and contrast. For most people it identifies the correct season or a closely adjacent one. Accuracy improves significantly when you use the optional AI selfie step with good natural lighting and no makeup. We are upfront about what the quiz is: a strong, free starting point. It is not a replacement for a two-hour professional draping, and we do not position it as one.
Can I retake the quiz?
Yes, as many times as you want, at no cost. If your first result surprises you, try retaking with better conditions: natural daylight near a window, no makeup or tinted moisturizer, and a neutral (white or gray) background. Most retake discrepancies come from lighting or makeup, not analysis errors.
What if I disagree with my result?
Two things to try. First, retake with better photo conditions — lighting is the most common variable. Second, browse your assigned season's hub page and hold the palette colors near your face in a mirror. If those shades genuinely do not harmonize, you may be a neighboring season. The YAY/OKAY/NAY system handles this gracefully — borderline products get an OKAY rating rather than a hard cutoff. And if you want definitive confirmation, a professional draping session works well alongside TruHue: the analyst confirms your season, and TruHue gives you daily product scoring afterward.
Does it work on all skin tones?
Yes. The 12-season Sci/Art system applies to every skin tone. Depth and undertone vary independently — you can be deep with a cool undertone, light with a warm undertone, or any other combination. TruHue's quiz and AI analysis are designed to evaluate the full range of human coloring. If you have very deep skin, the optional selfie step in good natural light helps the AI extract the most accurate data.
What's the difference between this and an in-person analysis?
An in-person color analysis ($200+ in most cities, 1-2 hours) uses physical fabric drapes and a trained analyst's eye under controlled lighting. TruHue uses guided questions and optional AI photo analysis to evaluate the same four dimensions digitally. Professional draping is the gold standard and catches nuances that digital analysis can miss. TruHue is faster, free, and gives you something a draping does not: an ongoing product-scoring tool you can use every time you shop. The two complement each other well.
Can I use TruHue to score products?
Yes — that is one of the main reasons TruHue exists beyond the quiz. Once you have your season, every product in the 30,000-item database gets a YAY, OKAY, or NAY rating based on your specific palette. You can browse by category, search for a specific brand or product, or just explore what scores highest for your season. The product scoring is free.
How long does the quiz take?
About 60 seconds for the core questions. If you add the optional AI selfie analysis, roughly two minutes total. Your season result, Color Passport, and product ratings appear immediately — no email wait, no processing delay.
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