You can also combine a darker neutral with a brighter accent colour, such as dark green with bright pink.Īn all-dark look also works for you. This combination has not only value contrast (light and dark) but also hue contrast (grey and purple). To achieve this, pair a light neutral in one hue with a different dark accent hue, such as a light grey with a dark purple.
Value contrast combined with hue contrast is especially flattering on you. Therefore, the best colour combinations for your outfits are similarly contrasting. Those are the combinations that repeat the contrast level naturally present in your appearance.ĭark Winter's natural appearance is highly contrasting. But certain combinations will look much better than others. Technically, you can combine any of the colours on the Dark Winter palette with each other. Whereas if you lean more towards True Winter, select the darker colours on the True Winter palette – such as Acai, Aventurine and Bellweather Blue. If you lean more towards Dark Autumn, opt for the cooler colours on the Dark Autumn palette – such as Plum Caspia, Blue Depths and Corsair. Depending on where you fall on the Dark Winter spectrum, you can borrow some colours from your sister palettes since they are close enough to the Dark Winter colour palette. Autumn’s effect on Dark Winter is additional warmth and some softness.Ĭompared to the third Winter season Bright Winter, the colours share the same neutral-cool hue but are darker and softer.Īs sister palettes, Dark Autumn and True Winter both share Dark Winter’s aspects of dark and cool, respectively. And the light colours of Dark Winter are lighter than those of Dark Autumn. Consequently, the colours are softer, darker and warmer than those of True Winter.Ĭompared to Dark Autumn, the colours are similarly dark but cooler and brighter. It falls at the Autumn end of the Winter palette. However, they are dark rather than very bright.ĭark Winter sits between Dark Autumn and True Winter on the seasonal flow chart.
Typical for Winter colours, the palette is slightly higher in chroma, meaning the colours are somewhat saturated and bright. This mixture in value is required to achieve the high contrast a Dark Winter needs. And while many of the colours are very light (white and the icy pastels), there are many more dark ones.
In line with this season’s primary colour aspect, the overall palette is dark. You will also not find many shades of yellow-based colours but instead more shades of blue and grey, which are naturally cool. So even if you choose yellow (which is the warmest colour of all), you will find only cooler shades that have a tint of blue. This means they contain more blue than yellow. The colours lean towards the cool end of the scale but are not extremely cool.
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