Deep Autumn Color Palette: Every Shade With Hex Codes

Deep Autumn is the darkest and richest of the three Autumns: warm, low-light, high-pigment colouring that can carry chocolate, burgundy and dark olive without being swallowed by them. Below is the complete Deep Autumn palette exactly as the Tone & Fit app shows it, with a hex code for every shade so you can match paint chips, shop online or build a moodboard from it.

What defines Deep Autumn

Deep Autumn (also called Dark Autumn) sits at the dark end of the Autumn family, right next door to Deep Winter. Three things define it. The undertone is warm: golden or olive rather than pink or blue. The value is deep: dark hair, dark eyes and often medium-to-deep skin, so the overall impression is low-light. And the chroma is rich rather than dusty: colours can be saturated as long as they stay dark and warm.

The result is a palette of warm darks. Where Warm Autumn wears rust and pumpkin at full brightness and Soft Autumn dials everything down to sage and mushroom, Deep Autumn takes the same earthy hue families and pushes them toward espresso, deep forest green, aubergine-leaning burgundy and dark teal. The one rule that matters most: even your darkest colour should keep a toasted, warm base. A warm dark beats a cool dark on you every time, which is why chocolate outperforms black and deep burgundy outperforms wine-red with a blue cast.

Still deciding? The Deep Autumn identification guide lists the seven signs to check, and the autumn colour palette shows how the three Autumns compare. Also called Dark Autumn.

All 38 Deep Autumn colours with hex codes

This is the Deep Autumn palette exactly as the Tone & Fit app stores it: 10 statement colours, 12 everyday midtones, 8 neutrals and 8 accents. Every swatch carries its hex code, so you can paste it into a shopping filter, a paint app or a moodboard. The app shows a filtered selection of these on your result screen so that no single hue family crowds out the rest.

Statement colours (10)

The ten shades that carry the season. Wear them as the main colour of an outfit.

• Saddle Brown#8B4513
• Deep Brown#704214
• Dark Warm Brown#5C4827
• Chocolate Brown#7B3F00
• Dark Olive#4A5D23
• Deep Warm Burgundy#882020
• Deep Warm Teal#2E5E50
• Dark Bronze#6B5C28
• Deep Forest Green#3A5838
• Deep Rust Red#7A3830

Everyday midtones (12)

Twelve softer versions for shirts, knits and layering. These are the workhorses.

• Warm Mid Brown#A36B3E
• Golden Brown Mid#917040
• Olive Mid#6B7D4A
• Warm Teal Mid#3E7060
• Warm Terracotta Mid#A06050
• Copper Brown Mid#AB7346
• Warm Amber Brown Mid#997848
• Sage Olive Mid#738552
• Warm Rust Mid#A86858
• Muted Green Mid#6A8870
• Warm Tan Mid#B07B5A
• Deep Camel Mid#7A5038

Neutrals (8)

Eight anchors for trousers, coats and bags. They replace the black and white that are not in this palette.

• Dark Sand#C4B39A
• Mocha Taupe#A69580
• Walnut#8E7E6B
• Warm Khaki#B5A590
• Toast#CABBA2
• Coffee Taupe#AC9B86
• Bark#948471
• Warm Stone#BBA996

Accents (8)

Eight deeper or brighter shades for shoes, scarves, lipstick and small doses of drama.

• Deep Rust Accent#6B2E0F
• Deep Bronze Accent#5A4310
• Deep Olive Accent#3B4F1A
• Deep Teal Accent#1E4840
• Deep Terracotta Accent#6E2A1A
• Deep Burgundy Accent#6A1828
• Deep Copper Accent#7B3E1F
• Deep Forest Green Accent#2E5030

Deep Autumn power shades: the five to buy first

If you only buy five things, buy these. They are the shades in the palette that give Deep Autumn the highest contrast against skin without tipping cool, and they are the ones the app surfaces first.

• Chocolate Brown#7B3F00
• Deep Warm Burgundy#882020
• Deep Warm Teal#2E5E50
• Dark Olive#4A5D23
• Deep Rust Red#7A3830

• Chocolate Brown #7B3F00: Your black. It does everything a black jacket does without draining the warmth from your face.
• Deep Warm Burgundy #882020: The dressiest colour on the palette, and the one that makes brown eyes look lit from behind.
• Deep Warm Teal #2E5E50: The cool-looking shade that is secretly warm; it reads as jewel-toned on you rather than icy.
• Dark Olive #4A5D23: The workhorse for trousers, coats and knits, richer on you than on any other season.
• Deep Rust Red #7A3830: Your version of red: toasted, brick-leaning and glowing rather than sharp.

Four Deep Autumn outfit formulas

Deep Autumn is dark and warm with real contrast, the Autumn that can carry the heaviest colours in the system without being swamped by them. These formulas use the palette's depth rather than working around it.

Read each one as base, main colour, accent. Depth is your advantage here; the only thing to avoid is coolness.

• The signature Dark Sand + Chocolate Brown + Dark Olive #C4B39A #7B3F00 #4A5D23

  Dark sand base, chocolate brown at the face, dark olive accent. Deep warm neutrals stacked together, which on high-contrast warm colouring looks deliberate rather than dull.

• Rich and dark Walnut + Deep Warm Burgundy + Deep Warm Teal #8E7E6B #882020 #2E5E50

  Walnut trousers, deep warm burgundy knit, deep warm teal accessories. The teal is what stops this reading as a uniform.

• Smart and deep Toast + Deep Brown + Deep Rust Red #CABBA2 #704214 #7A3830

  Toast shirt, deep brown jacket, deep rust-red detail. Brown as the dark suit colour, which for Deep Autumn beats both black and navy.

• Weekend earth Warm Khaki + Deep Forest Green + Dark Bronze #B5A590 #3A5838 #6B5C28

  Warm khaki base, deep forest green top, dark bronze accents. All three are dark, all three are warm, and together they are unmistakably this season.

A six-piece Deep Autumn capsule

Six garments, one colour each. A Deep Autumn capsule is built from deep warm neutrals rather than from brights, which is unusual in this system and is exactly why it works.

Buy the brown coat first. Swapping a black overcoat for a deep brown one is the single change that does most for this colouring.

Deep Autumn colours to avoid

Deep Autumn colouring is flattened by two things: cold and pale. Icy pastels, powder pinks and blue-greys drain the warmth from your skin and make features look tired. Stark white and pure black are less of a disaster on you than on the other Autumns, but they still cost you glow; swap them for warm ivory and chocolate and the difference shows up in photos immediately. Bright cool colours such as fuchsia, electric blue and cool purple fight your golden base rather than lifting it.

• Powder Pink#F8C8DC
• Icy Blue-Grey#B0C4DE
• Chalk White#FFF8DC
• Fuchsia#FF00FF
• Lavender Pastel#E6E6FA

Five shades that work against Deep Autumn colouring

• Powder Pink: Pale and cool; it sits on top of your colouring and leaves your face looking faded.
• Icy Blue-Grey: Cold and light, the opposite of everything Deep Autumn is.
• Chalk White: Stark white flattens your warmth; warm ivory or dark sand does the same job better.
• Fuchsia: Cool, electric and loud; it fights the golden base of your skin.
• Lavender Pastel: Washed-out and blue-based, it makes rich colouring look tired.

The four near misses

Deep Autumn borders Deep Winter, and that border is where the near misses live. Dark is not the question; warm is.

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  Black #000000

  Deep Autumn can nearly carry black, which is exactly the problem: it gets worn constantly and it is always slightly wrong. It is cool where you are warm, and it flattens the richness out of the face. Wear Dark Warm Brown #5C4827 instead.

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  True Burgundy #800020

  Cool wine looks like it belongs in a deep warm palette. Put it next to the warm burgundy above and the cool version goes purple and hard. Wear Deep Warm Burgundy #882020 instead.

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  Emerald Teal #004D40

  The Winter version of your deep teal. It is cooler and clearer, and on warm deep colouring it looks like it has been lit differently to your face. Wear Deep Warm Teal #2E5E50 instead.

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  Cool Grey #E8E8E8

  Neutral, inoffensive and completely draining here. Grey has no warmth to give back and Deep Autumn needs some. Wear Mocha Taupe #A69580 instead.

Metals and jewellery for Deep Autumn

Warm metals only, and the darker the finish the better. Antique gold, dark bronze and burnished copper echo the depth of the palette; a bright polished yellow gold can look a touch loud against it, and silver or platinum reads cold next to your skin. If you like a mixed-metal look, anchor it with bronze and let gold be the accent. For eyewear and watches, tortoiseshell and dark gunmetal with a warm cast both work well.

Best metals: Antique gold, dark bronze, burnished copper.

Sister seasons and neighbours

Deep Autumn borders Warm Autumn and Deep Winter. If you sit between two of them, wear the colours the palettes share and skip the extremes of each. The full autumn palette puts all three Autumn sub-seasons side by side, and the 12 colour seasons guide explains how the whole system fits together. Side-by-side comparisons: Deep Autumn vs Deep Winter, Deep Autumn vs Warm Autumn.

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