The Method

How the reading works.

Colour analysis, done with restraint and honesty.

Traditional colour analysis hands down a verdict from a single glance. Fourteen quiet observations — of your hair, eyes, skin, and the way colour behaves against you — are read together across five dimensions:

Why olive matters: a green-neutral cast is the most common misreading, mistaken for warmth or coolness. Read as its own dimension, it lets the season land true.

An honest confidence

Every reading returns one of four honest states — chiara (clear), sfumata (a shading, close between two), confermare (worth confirming in better light) — or, rarely, no season at all, when the answers sit far from every one of the twelve.

The Calculation

Published in full.

The method above is the whole of it — nothing is held back. The calculation stands on hue, value and chroma, each standardised so none outvotes the others, with olive read as its own signal and carried into chroma — which is how a green-neutral cast stops being mistaken for warmth or coolness. A population prior is applied — some seasons are simply more common than others — but only where the signals are close. Where the reading is clear, the prior does not change it. Where two seasons sit close, the reading names one and says so, with the other standing beside it. Where the answers sit far from all twelve, it names none — and the page says so plainly.