SUMMER
COLOUR PALETTES
Cool, light and gentle. Summer is a soft blue sky, sea mist and roses in the evening light.
Quick answer: Summer is the cool, light-to-medium season in colour analysis. Summers have rosy or pink-toned colouring, often with low contrast between hair, eyes and skin. In the 18-palette Absolute Colour System, Summer covers five palettes: Dynamic, Refined, Sublime, Serene and Tranquil.
Summer at a glance
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Undertone: cool
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Depth: light to medium
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Intensity: mostly soft, with Dynamic and Refined the clearest
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Instead of black: navy, soft charcoal and grey
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Best metals: silver, platinum and rose gold
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Energy: calm, gentle, refined
Who is a Summer?
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Hair: platinum, ash blonde, light ash brown, cool grey or silver
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Eyes: soft or clear blue, grey-blue, grey-green, aqua or soft cool brown
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Skin: porcelain, fair, rose beige or pink-toned, often a little sensitive
The tell-tale sign: bright, warm colours overpower you, while soft blues, roses and lavender make you look fresh and rested.
How Summer works in the Absolute Colour System
Every Summer palette is cool and on the lighter side. What changes is how clear or soft the colours are. The Absolute Colour System splits colour into 18 palettes by undertone, depth and intensity, so a crisp, clear Summer and a misty, smoky Summer each get a palette that actually fits. Dynamic is the medium-depth cool palette, so it belongs to both Summer and Winter.
The Summer palettes
Clear, cool and full of energy. Dynamic is a bright, clear, cool palette of medium depth for cool colouring and bright eyes. Navy and black both work, and silver is your metal. Dynamic is also a Winter palette.
Crisp, bright and cultured, like a clear summer's day. Refined suits light, cool colouring and clear eyes. Mid navy replaces black, and silver is your metal.
Soft, cool and heavenly, a summer's evening in pastel. Sublime suits light, cool, gentle colouring. Soft light charcoal replaces black, and platinum and rose gold are your metals.
Calm, cool and misty, like a summer dawn. Serene suits cool, muted colouring. Grey replaces black, and soft silver is your metal.
Soft, light and cool, a summer's breeze you can wear. Tranquil suits light, cool, gentle colouring where lightness matters most. Soft charcoal replaces black, and silver is your metal.
Which Summer are you?
If clear, brighter cool colours suit you, look at Dynamic and Refined. If you're very fair and everything strong overwhelms you, look at Tranquil and Sublime. If your colouring looks a little smoky or muted, look at Serene.
Fiona's Insight
Summers are the clients I see buying bright "statement" pieces and then never wearing them. Your statement isn't loud colour. It's harmony, and when the colours match your softness, people notice you, not your outfit.
Summer FAQs
Can Summers wear black?
Black is usually too harsh. Navy, soft charcoal and grey give you the same polish.
What's the difference between Summer and Winter?
Both are cool. Summer is lighter and softer, and Winter is deeper with more contrast.
Can Summers wear gold?
Silver, platinum and rose gold are your best metals. Warm yellow gold can drain cool colouring.
Not sure which Summer you are?
A Colour Analysis with Fiona takes the guesswork out. You'll be draped in person, find your exact palette and leave with a swatch booklet you can shop with for life.
What a full Colour Analysis gives you
What you're looking at now is just a taste of what's possible with your full personal colour analysis. In a real session, we go so much deeper than one palette on a screen — you get draped in person, we find your exact signature colours (the ones that light up your eyes, skin and hair), and you walk away with a full swatch booklet you can take shopping for life.
Here's what's included:
- A full in-person or virtual draping session & guide book
- Your personalised colour swatch booklet
- Your Contrast, Value levels (how to put an outfit together)
- Value & Colour Dominance (how does it all work for you)
- Your signature colours — the ones that work *specifically* for you, not just your palette group
- Guidance on your best denims, neutrals, metals and makeup tones
- A wardrobe you can finally shop with confidence, instead of guessing
Beyond Colour — Other Ways I Can Help
Colour is just the beginning. Once you know your palette, the next step is making sure everything else — fit, style, confidence — is working just as hard for you. Here's what else is available at My Colour and Style:
-The Edit ($702) — Colour analysis plus a full wardrobe audit. We go through what you own, keep what suits you, and clear out the rest.
- The Reveal ($864) — Colour analysis plus personal styling. We uncover the silhouettes, fabrics and shapes that genuinely flatter you.
- The Transformation ($1,215) — Colour, wardrobe and style, all aligned. The full reset: your palette, your edited wardrobe, and a style that's unmistakably yours.
- The Full Wardrobe ($1,566) — Everything in The Transformation, plus a guided personal shopping session to fill the gaps, together.