Your color palette should never restrict your ability to express your aesthetic preference through your knitting. Personal Preference Trumps Color Analysis Use your recommended color palette as a starting point and work from there to experiment with additional colors tones and shades. Using the other palettes can help you build a more varied, yet still cohesive color schemes for your knitting needs. The other palettes, especially your within your season offer a whole host of other shades to explore that will suit you just as well. If your complexion does fit one of the types well, it would be a huge shame to just ignore the all the other colors. That means that you might not neatly fit into only one type and be suited to only one color palette. Why not? Because the 12 seasonal sub-types are not exclusive nor comprehensive. You should not rely on your colors like a fail-proof rule for every color that looks good on you. But you may still flow into the Clear Winter palette.You look best in saturated, clear colors. If you have dark hair you can be mistaken for a Winter but the apparent warmth in your coloring tells you otherwise. Your coloring is high in contrast and full of saturation. You look best in the soft, light and muted shades of your color palette. You flow into Light Summer which is the lightest and most delicate color palette in the entire seasonal color analysis. You may have some neutrality to your coloring because of your light features but warm undertones. Your have in general a light coloring so you can not have dark brown eyes, as light colors won’t harmonize with your deep eyes. Your hair colour is light, your skin is light for your ethnicitiy and your eyes are either a light blue, green or grey. If you have some darker features you may flow into Warm Autumn.You’re best suited to the mid-range colours in your palette that are neither too intense nor too pale. If you have more obvious cool undertones to your skin even though your hair and eyes are warm, you may not be a Warm Spring. Each of these modifiers has one or two distinguishing features that hopefully will help you determine your very best colors! Within the overarching Spring category there are three subcategories, warm, light and clear. Women of color who are a Spring has a warm coloring as Autumns but with less intensity with clearer and lighter eye color and/or hair color. Also, many women of color who are incorrectly identified as Deep Autumn may belong to this group. The majority of red-heads fall within this season because of the dominant warm, red hair color. Your coloring is generally warm but bright. If you’re a woman of color with dark hair, you probably have clear and lighter eyes than what’s typical in your ethnicity (Turquoise blue, green, topaz, light brown, hazel) If your hair is dark it most likely has golden or reddish highlights Your hair is somewhere between dark to medium brown, coppery red, strawberry, deep golden and light blonde. You have earthy and summer tonal qualities to your eyes, ranging from turquoise blue to hazel and sparkly light brown Some cool undertones may exist but to a lesser extent than the warm undertones. If your skin appears pink, it’s more likely a peachy warm pink. You have a clear, warm and golden undertone to your overall coloring. However you may also have dark hair and pale skin but with clear eyes If you are a Spring that means you have a warm skin tone and hair that is naturally lighter than medium brown.Īs a Spring you have a low level of contrast between your hair, skin and eye color. Ultimately the goal is for you to find your absolute best colors! Once you have an idea of which colors look best on you it can be translated directly into your sweater knitting. Now we’ll look at each season a little bit deeper and include a few modifiers to be more specific within each season. In our previous series The Ultimate Guide to Color Theory for Sweater Knitters we looked briefly into seasonal color analysis and how it can work with the color wheel. Color For Your Skin Tone: Flattering Colors For Everyone.
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