Colors

Seasons

Color is defined through:
value, how light or dark it appears,
hue, how cool or warm it appears,
and chroma, how bright or muted it appears.

Through these three elements they developed four principal groups, palettes called Winter, Summer, Autumn, and Spring. The persons that look good in the colors of one of the four groups are called with the same names of their season: in other words, a person which looks good with the colors of Winter is a Winter. Every season, moreover, is made of three subtypes, which classify the coloring of people who belong to the same season but have different colors of skin, eyes, and hair
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The names of the four seasons have been given for pure aesthetic reasons – it’s nicer to say that somebody is an Autumn instead of Group 3 – and because some of the colors recall the colors of that season. It doesn’t mean that we have to use the colors of the Winter in winter and the colors of the Summer in summer. Each one of us belongs only to one season during the whole year.

Every season has all the colors. What changes between the red of the Winter and the red of the Summer are the value and the chroma.

Every season has a red or a green or a blue; but the red of the Winter enhances the person Winter and it’s not as good on the person Spring.

In depth:

• Cold colors,Warm colors
• Seasons
• Right Color, Wrong Color
• Coloring
• Color principles
• Skin, Hair, Eyes: Options
  
  

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