How Common Is Your Color Season?
Estimated distribution of all 12 color seasons across the global population, based on demographic data and color science.
| Season | Family | Estimated % |
|---|---|---|
| Soft Autumn | Autumn | 12% |
| True Autumn | Autumn | 10% |
| Deep Autumn | Autumn | 9% |
| True Spring | Spring | 8% |
| Soft Summer | Summer | 8% |
| True Summer | Summer | 7% |
| Deep Winter | Winter | 7% |
| True Winter | Winter | 7% |
| Light Summer | Summer | 7% |
| Light Spring | Spring | 7% |
| Bright Spring | Spring | 5% |
| Bright Winter | Winter | 5% |
All 12 Seasons, Ranked
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Warm vs. Cool
Warm undertones (Spring + Autumn families) are more prevalent globally than cool undertones (Summer + Winter). This reflects the higher frequency of warm-based melanin expression across diverse populations.
Distribution by Dimension
Every color season is defined by four traits. Here is how the global population breaks down along each axis.
Undertone
Depth
Chroma
Contrast
What Makes a Season Rare?
Not all color seasons are equally common. Your season is determined by four independent genetic variables: undertone (warm or cool), depth (how light or deep your natural coloring is), chroma (how muted or saturated your pigmentation is), and contrast (the difference between your lightest and darkest features).
Soft Autumn sits at the top (12%) because warm undertones are globally common, medium depth describes the largest portion of the world's population, and muted chroma is the default rather than the exception. Those three traits overlap frequently.
Bright Spring and Bright Winter sit at the bottom (5% each) because they require high chroma. Clear, vivid, saturated natural coloring is the least common chroma level. When you add the requirement for a specific undertone on top of that, the eligible population narrows further.
Deep seasons (Deep Autumn, Deep Winter) sit in the middle. Deeper skin tones are well-represented globally, but the split between warm and cool undertone at depth creates two distinct and moderately-sized groups rather than one large one.
Light seasons are similarly constrained: light natural coloring is less common globally than medium, so Light Spring and Light Summer each represent about 7%.
Your season is not better or worse for being rare or common. A Soft Autumn and a Bright Winter have equally precise palettes. The scoring works the same way regardless of how many people share your season.
Every Season, Up Close
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Which Season Are You?
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Take the Free QuizHow We Estimated These Numbers
These distributions are modeled from population demographic data: global skin tone distribution across ethnic groups, the known genetic factors behind melanin type (eumelanin/pheomelanin ratio), and published research on undertone prevalence.
We cross-referenced this demographic data with the 12-season Sci/Art color system's classification criteria for undertone, depth, chroma, and contrast to estimate how many people fall into each season.
These are global averages. Regional distributions will differ based on the ethnic composition of a given area. For example, Scandinavian populations skew toward Light Summer and Light Spring, while South Asian populations skew toward Deep Autumn and Deep Winter.
As TruHue's user base grows, we will update these estimates with real aggregate data from our color analysis quiz, anonymized and reported in aggregate only.