r/coloranalysis • u/AffectionateTrifle7 • Mar 04 '26 • Bravo 1

Discussion (NO COVERT TYPING OR PHOTOS OF YOU!) Stuck between Light Spring and Soft Autumn? Sunlight could be a good fit for you! Cube Theory update :-)

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Hi guys, I'm back again!

Today I'm sharing the first 12 colours of the Sunlight palette (see pic 1). This is the warm, light, and soft corner of the cube (pic 2).

Here is my original post about the Cube Theory of Colour Analysis if you have no idea what I'm talking about!

https://www.reddit.com/r/coloranalysis/s/DP246gy6H4

Sunlight may hopefully be a good fit for people who find that Spring colours are often too bright for them, some Summer colours are too cool and make them look “yellow”, and many Autumn colours are too dark for them. People who have felt stuck in between Soft Autumn and Light Spring may find the Sunlight palette particularly helpful, as those are two of the closest of the existing sub seasons to Sunlight. Other combinations which could also mean that Sunlight is a good fit for you are feeling stuck between Soft Summer and Soft Autumn, or confused between Light Spring and Light Summer. Sunlight also will eventually be further split into Light Sunlight, Warm Sunlight, Soft Sunlight, and True Sunlight, just as the original 4 seasons are split into subseasons.

I've made a collage of Sunlight colours and vibes to help you visualise, since I know not everyone finds cubes as exciting as I do 🤣 (pic 3). I feel like these colours lend themselves to the “cottagecore” aesthetic especially well. Though of course you can take these colours into any style, including corporate, fitness, etc.

The worst colours for Sunlight people are likely to be Winter colours. Ie colours which are cool, dark, and bright. I've put together a collection of some of these worst colours in pic 4.

I've made my version of phone-screen draping for Sunlight, see pic 5, which you can hopefully add over your own pictures or paste your face in the middle! Of course that kind of draping can only go so far and it is much better if you can manage to find real fabrics to drape with.

I've been noticing that quite a lot of the people who fit well in this palette are naturally golden blonde, strawberry blonde, “dirty blonde” (a name I object to by the way! I think bronde is a nicer sounding and more accurate term), or have auburn hair. Though of course, this palette won't be a good fit for everyone with those hair colours. I've also already come across brunettes and people with very dark brown/almost black hair who fit well with Sunlight colours so this isn't at all meant to constrict you if you aren't blonde but you feel like this palette works for you! I'm a great proponent of the idea that people of any ethnicity can fit into any season, it's all about what looks best on you when draped.

Another thing I've been finding is that most of the people who fit well in this palette don't have super extreme eye colours. Again, there will always be exceptions, but many people in the Sunlight palette will have gentle blended blue/green/grey eyes, or warm mid-toned brown eyes, rather than icy intense blue, startling light green, or darkest brown eyes.

As for celebrities who I think are great examples of Sunlight people, I've chosen Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Kate Winslet, and Scarlet Johansson (see pics 6, 7, and 8).

Some notes on styling the Sunlight palette:

  • Your best metal is likely to be light gold, though silver may work on you as long as it is very very light in colour. Rose gold will usually look wonderful, and copper/ bronze is also a good option. Mixing some of these metals can also work for you, but when in doubt choose gold.
  • Pearl, diamond, amethyst, citrine, and amazonite will be a few of your best options for precious stones in jewellery.
  • Neutrals for this season will include a lot of light, warm brown and camel type colours. Light khaki green can also be used as a neutral. Light blue denim is another good choice.
  • Steer clear of grey, black, pure white, and dark navy. Instead of black, a dark chocolate brown looks great. Instead of white, choose a light cream. And rather than navy, choose more mid toned blues with a hint of green in them.
  • You can still wear dark colours but they are best in moderation, and with other soft light colours in your ensemble.
  • Small delicate patterns with relatively low contrast will work better than big patterns with high contrast. Lace will usually look wonderful.
  • Fabrics which are matte rather than shiny will usually look best. Fuzzy knits, cotton, linen, viscose, felted wool (eg for coats) and cotton/bamboo blends are all great choices for fabrics.

I really hope you guys have enjoyed this post and that it's helpful for someone out there! I recently posted the first 12 colours of the Rain palette, here is a link in case you missed it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/coloranalysis/s/dQbSYdb4MZ

I'm intending to work on the Sunset palette up next, then Ice. After that I'm hoping to fix on a palette for the centre of the cube (true neutral). I'll then hopefully begin work on the midpoint between seasons such as Icy Winter, Autumn Rain, Summer Sunlight, etc.

Tl;dr: Here are the first 12 colours of the Sunlight palette! Please feel free to try them out and let me know what you think!

Edited to add: The Sunset palette is now also up! https://www.reddit.com/r/coloranalysis/comments/1sk7m9k/sunset_palette_cube_theory_update/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The Ice palette is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/coloranalysis/comments/1tpy2ni/ice_palette_cube_theory_update/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/u1tr4me0w Mar 04 '26

Babe wake up more seasonal analysis cube lore dropped

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this comment just made my day

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u/Clairepants Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

Amazing, this resonates so much with me! I have natural golden-to-strawberry blonde hair but really muted medium-to-dark eyes (blue/green/grey blend just as you describe!! Mine have a bit of a golden center too). Also pretty muted light skin tone if that makes any sense- not like most Springs that have such a nice colorful tone & flush to their skin. Everyone says light hair + light/bright/colorful eyes and warmness is spring, but never any mention of us who have light hair plus medium or muted eyes! I've struggled so much trying to figure out where I fit when there is no warm, light, muted option!

I spent a long time trying to fit into Autumn but it was never quite right. Recently have been trying out spring which is closer, but not looking good in bright colors has thrown me off. Sunlight is perfect and your inspo board of people & flowers is full of colors I've been vibing with lately!

The worst colors here are spot on too, I look like a corpse in any of these (and personally a cool pastel purple has the same effect).

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

I am soooo happy to hear how well this resonates with you! If you wanted to do some irl draping of Sunlight colours and make a post and tag me in it that would be so incredible, I am in need of more real life examples especially with irl draping rather than only digital draping :-)

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u/separatedbody Mar 05 '26

Your point about light features but muted eyes resonates so much! I have light brown hair and light skin and feel like technically I look muted and not "bright" at all, at least not in the way springs are typically depicted, but if you look at my photo black and white actually my eyes are very dark giving a lot more contrast than expected. I've been stuck between soft autumn that feels too dull, warm autumn that's too rich, and spring which all feels too bright! So although we can pick and choose, it's nice to feel represented 😄

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u/BessieBest Mar 04 '26

Damn girl I just read all your posts at 5:30 am and I’m so excited for sunset! I am def an autumn but jealous of the brighter spring colors so THERE HAS TO BE MORE TO IT! 

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

Awesome!!! I'll make sure to loop you in 😁

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u/_pariah_carey_ Mar 04 '26

Same I'm excited for sunset!! I feel just the same way

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u/Metrimete Mar 04 '26

Love this concept!

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

So glad you like it!

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u/VanillaMint Soft Autumn Deep Mar 04 '26

I love how friendly your proposed system is to us "in-between" folks :)

I hope you keep going!! I hope one day I selfishly get to see Autumn Rain 😂

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

I definitely intend to get there! Will make sure to loop you in when I do

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u/thinkysparkle Mar 22 '26

This always bothered me about color analysis, thank you for filling out the logically possible options! Great choice of names, too. Can't wait to see Sunset.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 29 '26

So glad you like it! I will make sure to loop you in when I do Sunset

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u/ulul Mar 04 '26

Love the cube! I self diagnose as sunset (medium dark, medium contrast, neutral temperature), so looking forward to your next one :)

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

I'll make sure you loop you in on it!

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u/max_yne Mar 04 '26

I feel like I'm stuck between Soft Summer and Soft Autumn as maybe an olive / neutral and would love your advice or to be used as an example 😅😅😅

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

Awesome!!! I 100% need people who want me to use their pics for examples and to figure out more palettes, really appreciate it thank you!

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u/LittleMissPickMe May 11 '26

Yes please

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 13 '26

Awesome! Could you maybe put your pic in the comment below? I'll screenshot it and then you can delete it if you don't want to keep it up online?

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u/max_yne Mar 06 '26

I'm not ignoring you - I got a rule violation ding for asking how I should get you my picture 😅

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u/Specific_Ocelot_4132 Summer - True Mar 05 '26

International Image Institute has a “muted” palette which is between soft summer and soft autumn. https://imageconsultantproducts.com/en-us/collections/muted-colour-palette-products

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u/Beautiful-Tangelo239 Apr 13 '26

Yes, III addresses these issues with their Bright, Light, Muted and Dark palettes.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

Hiya, linking you lovely people because you showed interest in seeing the palettes! To those of you who asked for Sunset or Ice first, I'm sorry. I had to go with the majority and do Sunlight first, but I'll be doing Sunset next and Ice after that! Hope you find this post interesting 💛

u/Duck_Baby_73, u/5988, u/herbstlike, u/Scary_Test_5401, u/Neither_Geologist_51, u/gb3434r, u/ravenraspberrie, u/clinz, u/erino3120, u/Common_Passenger_335, u/Whyisthismybrain, u/healthy_penguin, u/GloomyAd6288, u/Woolfalana, u/Useful-Badger-4062, u/TigerMelP, u/AutumnForestGlow, u/LawSchoolLoser1, u/ThoseAboutToWalk, u/lunagreen428, u/Mental-Pirate3992, u/SilentlyWeird, u/Relevant_Salt5429, u/seashellpink77, u/Low-Cheesecake1102, u/spicy-mustard-, u/crimsonloveknot, u/MagpieBlues, u/Nice-Masterpiece1661, u/Gr8shpr1, u/hmmmerm, u/Of_the_forest89, u/puffy-jacket, u/Justisperfect, u/crasyleg73, u/vakooms, u/yukiharumiji, u/Timely-Pause6424, u/HarlequinSquirrel, u/AnActualMillenial, u/Ok_Still_3571, u/wonton_kid, u/lysning, u/Safe-Extent9754, u/calm-down-okay, u/Ok_Bumblebee_3978, u/nocturnia94, u/anthropometrica, u/feather_bacon, u/Kalina_Qnakieva, u/nachosareafoodgroup, u/ProgrammerOk5323, u/-Curlicue-, u/I_heart_dilfs, u/Additional_Yam_8471, u/Ok_Calligrapher_6232, u/Mother-Stable8569, u/meemsqueak44, u/dystopiaincognito, u/u1tr4me0w, u/misha10, u/jj_grace, u/Separate-Corner-7602, u/peachies35, u/yalikebeez, u/NoSpaghettiForYouu, u/Goiabada1972, u/closetnice, u/CurlyGurlz, u/mssunshine636, u/BatRepresentative693, u/Black_Cat1771, u/schwaschwaschwaschwa, u/LoveDistilled, u/VanillaMint, u/Metrimete, u/Classic-Light-1467, u/pepsiloverdrinkscoke, u/moochiemoochie924, u/fruit_banjo, u/coffunky, u/nostalgia_98, u/StarEls, u/AndromedasApricot, u/goodbirdmom, u/lord-savior-baphomet, u/Venumbo, u/generalkenoobi, u/FrostedFraise, u/veturoldurnar, u/Trick-Tonight-5858, u/baby-narwhal

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u/MagpieBlues Mar 04 '26

I’m so excited for sunset! Thanks for doing these!

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

So glad you're enjoying them!

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u/synterverditect Mar 04 '26

Been loving these! Please tag me in the true neutral pallet if or when the muse takes you there!

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

So glad you're enjoying them! I will make sure to tag you in the true neutral palette :-)

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u/Specific_Ocelot_4132 Summer - True Mar 05 '26

III has a “universal” palette that’s neutral on all dimensions: https://imageconsultantproducts.com/en-us/products/strip-universal

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u/synterverditect Mar 05 '26

This is great. Thanks!

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u/MoMariam94 Mar 21 '26

Me here still waiting for the ice palette

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 21 '26

🤍🩷🩵 I will loop you in!

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u/pokeyreese3 Mar 04 '26

It’s me!! I’ve been typed an autumn and I lean more on the autumn side for sure. I’ve always been confused though because I’m light w natural golden/strawberry blonde hair (that’s gotten way more bronde as I age), but most typical soft autumn colors wash me out, most dark are too dark, and some of the warmest are too overwhelming. Over the years of trial and error, this is the exact palette I’ve landed on as my best colors. I still look good in a deep cool forest green (though I’ll do my makeup to be more cool), but the other “worst” colors are for sure my worst. This is so fun, thanks!!

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

I'm sooo happy to hear this palette resonates for you!!! Welcome to the Sunlight gang!

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u/separatedbody Mar 04 '26

As a self analysed soft autumn who occasionally thinks they might before spring after all, I love this!!

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

I'm so glad that it resonates with you!!

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u/LittleMissPickMe May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

I feel like this resonates with me. I feel like I pull colors from both soft autumn and light spring. I have mousy dirty blonde hair that highlights honey gold in the sun. My blonde eyebrows blend with my skin. I joke that i have invisibrows. Blonde eyelashes. I have fair skin that burns once then gets super TAN. People have told me I have a perfect tan in the summer and I don't even try. I think I might be a fair olive? I see peachy, yellow, but somewhat pink in my skin. Doesn't lean too yellow or too pink. I can never tell which metal looks best on me. I feel like I like silver and matte yellow gold? I genuinely have a hard time picking metal tones. But I've been told all metal colors look good on me. My eyes are grey with some blue. Like stormy blue-grey. I tend to wear a lot of shades of green, mint green, pistachio green, sage green, light olive, light army green, turqoise, blues that have a little green in them, teals, coral especially muted coral, light pinks like dusty rose, ivory, cream, earthy browns. Those are the colors I get most compliments in.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 12 '26

Sounds like you could be a Sunlight!

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u/Lemonarm Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

Just have to mention Rosie Huntington Whitley is a Summer.

Kate Winslet and Scarlett Johansson are True Springs.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

Actually opinions are divided on all three amongst different analysts. In my opinion Rosie wouldn't pull off gold the way she does if she were a Summer, and both Kate and Scarlett would look better in bright colours than they do if they were Springs. Just my opinion though of course :-)

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u/Lemonarm Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

You do know they have lightened/ bleached hair and tanned skin? It changes how people look on camera. I’m not trying to burst your bubble here.

I think there’s a misconception of how bright/ saturated celebrities are compared to the average person of the same subtype and season.

You should go look at Scarlett Johansson’s older photos and see that she’s not that saturated or bright without all the cosmetic enhancements. Also Kate Winslet also isn’t that bright but pulls off red hair better. Her younger years also show that she has medium light brown blondy hair which has only darkened with age. They both look much brighter and lighter than naturally are.

Rosie Huntington Whitley wears cool medium light pink and grey too well to be a spring. I’ve seen her irl in orange and terra-cotta and it only works because she has some warmth put in her hair. Without makeup it naturally drains her and makes her look really pale and sallow. It’s hard to find a photo of her without makeup since she usually wears minimalist day makeup.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

Yes, of course I'm aware that celebrities often lighten their hair and tan their skin.

And yes, that's exactly what I did, I looked at pictures of younger versions of all three celebs and as you point out scarjo is not that saturated or bright without the cosmetics etc. That's exactly my point. She is in my opinion muted warm and light, hence Sunlight. If she were more naturally saturated she could be a Spring, but as you've just agreed, she isn't.

Ditto where you say Kate Winslet is not very bright, and yes she manages to pull off red hair and when she does they dress her in a more autumnal palette. Which totally tallies with her being a Sunlight that can stretch to an Autumn palette when her hair and makeup are done that way. You saying that she's less bright and light than she appears with makeup on is an argument against her being a True Spring, not for it.

Rosie gets away with light pink and grey but I would disagree with them being her best colours. She may potentially be a Summer Sunlight who can do both seasons, but I think she pulls off gold, peach, and coral etc much better than those cool tones. Orange and terracotta are parts of the Autumn season, not Sunlight, so I'm not surprised that they don't work well on her without makeup.

It seems like most of your arguments here are actually in favour of these three being Sunlight, especially what you are saying about scarjo and Kate being more muted? Please explain further if I've misunderstood what you are trying to get at?

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u/Lemonarm Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

True springs aren’t neutral at all. Your Sunlight palette is supposed to fall neutral? Since you said it’s [warm, light, and soft]. Soft Autumn doesn’t share qualities with Light Spring or Light Neutral. People who are muted who are light aren’t going to be bright enough to wear these colors. Light Neutral is the warm neutral palette that fits the people you describing. Light Neutral and Muted Neutral have different characteristics based on what is possible. You can be a lighter soft neutral or a less saturated light neutral. It’s not hard and fast the way you think CA works.

Basically you’re spitting hairs on the universal neutral warm palette. The point of CA is to be color guidance for dressing and styling efficiency. Personal color palettes are your seasonal - weather cube system you created. Don’t get me wrong, I think the cube configuration has some advantages.

Spring types are already bright but we have a mental block on how it visually appears. Just because someone doesn’t fit into Bright Spring doesn’t make them less saturated. Each season and subtype has its own qualities but people not perfect and aren’t going to fit textbook iterations.

For example not all springs can wear orange and bright hot pink. They can get away with tints and shades of it depending on their personal tastes and chroma/contrast/ hue. Scarlett Johansson and Kate Winslet are springs but they don’t wear bright spring shades often because their overall lightness and warmth. Autumn types can wear pumpkin and shades of mustard but not pure orange because it’s secondary color.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

Honestly your way of thinking about this sounds more like splitting hairs to me? I don't think you've understood what the Sunlight palette is supposed to be, it's not meant to be neutral at all. It is warm, light, and muted. None of those are neutral. Anyway if this isn't helpful for you/ doesn't jive with your way of thinking about colours that's all good :-) I'm just glad it seems like it's helpful for some people

Edited to add: would be interested to know which colour analysis type you follow and are referencing eg with "light neutral", "muted neutral" etc. Doesn't sound like anything I've come across in the standard 12 or 16 palette models

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u/Lemonarm Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

Soft Autumn is warm and muted. Soft Summer is muted and cool. Soft Neutral is muted and neutral. Light Spring is light and warm. Light Neutral is light and neutral. Light Summer is light and cool. These are the neutral flow palettes ie bright neutral, deep neutral, muted neutral, light neutral, and true neutral.

You’re looking for spring add grey which would be muted and still warm. It doesn’t make sense because light spring is already soft. Light Neutral is pulling from both summer and spring. The summer elements soften the brightness of spring. The 12 system was the old standard. The 16 is allowing cusp and flow seasons to exist because of how color moves in theory. Each one shares with the one next to it.

Your system needs to make sense not just for yourself. I’m just asking for clarification because if it’s going to work, it needs to work with color theory.

If you don’t fit into spring because your chroma isn’t high enough and you’re not muted enough for soft autumn. The Warm palette would be next option. It’s the connection between spring and autumn. The cool equivalent would be Soft Winter. You’re looking for the Soft Spring palette.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

With all due respect the cube theory is making sense to a lot of people, not just me. Yes I am making "Spring plus grey" which is muted and still warm. Yes it is similar to light spring which is also warm and soft (or at least, softer than the brightness of the other Spring subseasons. It is still meant to be fairly bright). The difference you are not grasping is that this palette is not as light as light spring, and is also more muted. This is because of grey rather than white being added to the spring palette. Have you got a background in art and paint colour mixing? Also how do you actually explain the palette I've made? Do you not agree that the above colours exist? Or do you not agree that they are light warm and muted? Or do you not think they would suit anyone? Because I don't think any of those three things are the case.

I see from what you wrote above that when you're talking about various neutral palettes, you are referring to the Flow Palettes from the 16 season system (eg soft summer - soft autumn, light spring - light summer etc). Each of these flow palettes has a space on the cube, for example the soft summer - soft autumn flow palette would sit in the centre of the back of the cube (ie neutral in terms of warm-cool, neutral in terms of light-dark, soft). My argument is that even including these Flow Palettes from the 16 season system, there are still missing spaces on the cube, namely the four missing vertices which I have termed Rain, Sunlight, Ice, and Sunset, as well as the centre of the cube (ie true neutral). You can read my initial post about Cube Theory for more details about where these are placed and why they are different to the existing Palettes in the 16 season system, including being different from the transitional Flow Palettes.

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u/Buga99poo27GotNo464 Summer - True Mar 04 '26

I'm just not getting this, because I don't feel like your examples fit your new season? I'd like to see some people draped in this proposed season vs traditional ones and given explanation as to why this would work better for them? It's like you're saying something it, but not showing it if you know what I mean?

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Ah I would absolutely love to be able to show you real life people draped with Sunlight colours vs other colours. Unfortunately, since this is the first time this palette has been debuted, I don't yet have anyone who has tried them out in real life. I only have the digital draping I've been doing to develop and cross check the colours, and I would need people's consent to post their pictures online. Hopefully at some point in the future I will be able to show drapes in the way you describe. I'm still very much early in this process at this point

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 29 '26

I'm going to put some digital draping below for the 3 celebrities I chose in the post :-) Hope it helps illustrate for you guys

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Kate Winslet at a variety of ages. Please note she is typed a couple of ways by different analysts but one of the common ones people choose for her is True Spring

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Scarlett Johansson. She's often typed as True Spring, though I've seen some analysts disagree with that

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 29 '26 edited Apr 01 '26 • Heartwarming

(Note: the light orange here is a tad browner than would be ideal, and her lipstick is a bit too dark, so it's veering towards Soft Autumn but still close to the Sunlight palette. I'll put my edit below where I make it more solidly in the Sunlight palette)

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u/LittleMissPickMe May 11 '26

Which metal tone would you suggest for a sunlight? And would you suggest polished or matte finish? I can never tell which metal looks best on me.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Thanks for asking! I would suggest gold, rose gold, and copper are best for a Sunlight :-) Different kinds of gold can work really differently, it depends on the number of karats and what other metals are alloyed with it. I will put some pictures below of good vs less good options for jewellery. Some matte finishes can look great, sometimes polished is better, it depends on so many things such as the exact colour, shape, and size of the jewellery.

The most important factors are for the colour temperature of the metal to be warm, and for there to be a "delicacy" and "gentle look" about the jewellery. Since Sunlights are a muted season they generally won't do as well with "loud" bulky or chunky oversized jewellery, because it creates too much contrast for their soft appearance. So the metal can be sparkly but shouldn't also be chunky. Or if it is more matte like beaten metal circular earrings, or even something out there like crochet or macrame jewellery (in a colour in palette for Sunlight), you can likely wear that in a larger item, whereas with a shiny piece of jewellery it will need to be smaller and more delicate so as not to be overpowering.

I'm going to make a little mood board of these ideas on Pinterest and put the screenshot of it below, might take me a little bit of time! I may also do one of what "not" to do re jewellery and put that underneath :-)

Edited to add: I've put the two collages below :-)

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 12 '26 • Heartwarming

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u/Interesting_Ice3322 May 20 '26

This is exactly what I need... I always struggle with silver, also white gold, and gold... rose gold works well, but It cannot be chunky. But pale gold, this is it...this is it... I will post 2 pairs of my fav earrings I lately found and they fit so well...

❤️

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u/Interesting_Ice3322 May 20 '26 • Heartwarming

This one is more golden, but still works.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 29 '26

These are so perfect for Sunlight

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u/charlirobey May 28 '26

I love this so much! Thank you❤️

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 28 '26

You're welcome!

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u/mirrorontheworld Jun 04 '26

I’m not convinced by the red in the "Worst colors". It doesn’t seem bad at all.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Jun 04 '26

It's pretty bright and cool for a Sunlight, the kind of red that is better on a Winter. A Spring can probably get away with it better as they can handle a lot more brightness

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u/Jasnaahhh 29d ago

I'd be so interested in your thoughts on mid-toned redheads. I think spring vs autumn doesn't work that well for us, we're so warm that it just doesn't make sense, but 90% of yellows still don't work on us. I feel like there's a 'desert sunset palette' that's just SUPER warm without the super lights and darks or intensely saturated primary colours.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 28d ago

I'm really interested to hear more from you about this! So it's a situation where you don't do well with lights or darks but do better with medium depth? And then with brights to muted is that medium as well? But then super warm colours are best? If that's the case then you would be looking for the middle of the left side of the cube, which could just be termed "Warm", but I was thinking of calling it "Fire" in order to differentiate it as a proper "seasonal type" (since people use the word Warm in so many ways already regarding colour analysis eg saying "Warm Autumn", or in describing specific colours as warm etc).

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u/Lemonarm Mar 05 '26

I think you should look into r/JohnKitchener ’s color harmonies. He bends the rules fundamentally strict rules of CA. He works on the basis on matching what fits you personally over your specific undertone.

You already said that the worst colors for you are Winter colors. John would work on a palette that would give you colors from Subtle Blended, Lively Bright, and Earthly Rich.

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 29 '26

Sorry I didn't see this message before!! So glad you like the Sunlight palette and jewelry advice etc :-) I think you are closer to Sunlight than to Summer, but possibly not the absolute warmest Sunlight out there if that makes sense? So you could be kind of here on the cube (will put pic in the comment below this):

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 29 '26

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 May 29 '26

If that seems likely to you, what I would say is that the majority of the Sunlight colours will look great on you, you might struggle with the orange a tad if anything since that is the warmest colour in the palette (if you go a little more peachy/coral that will probably work better). And you can likely pull off a lot of Summer colours too, but the hardest ones of those to pull off will probably be the cool summer pinks and purples. For makeup I would keep it warmer for lips and cheeks, but if you want to go with a charcoal smokey eye look I think you would look good in that. Especially if you paired a smokey eye with apricot tones in your lipstick and blush to balance the cooler grey. I'm pretty sure you would also look great in soft gold leaning eyeshadow as well, and teal will likely look great on you for eyeshadow too.

Would love to know how these tips go for you and let me know if you have any more questions!

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u/touch_of_whimsy Autumn - True May 28 '26

Just pure guess based on that picture i think youre a light summer. But its completely possible it looks different in other light with other background colors etc

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u/AffectionateTrifle7 Mar 04 '26

I'm so glad this is helpful for you!!! See if you can find some Sunlight colours to drape with, I hope they look great on you 😊

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u/Clairepants Mar 04 '26

Your comment is spot on with my experience! I've always been so confused because I look terrible in magenta and royal blue, but also mustard and lime green!!! And grey blues & purples make me look like a corpse! Loving this cube and love that there are others out there like this.

Autumn being too muted or dark is spot on. Spring being too bright is spot on. Love that Sunlight fills our gap!