Deep Winter Color Palette: Every Shade With Hex Codes

Deep Winter is the darkest and most dramatic season in the system: cool undertone, deep value, and enough contrast to wear black, midnight navy and deep wine right up against the face. This is the complete Deep Winter palette from the Tone & Fit app, 38 shades with hex codes, plus the five to buy first, the colours that work against you, and the metals that complete it.

What defines Deep Winter

Deep Winter (also called Dark Winter) is defined first by depth: dark hair, dark eyes and a high-contrast relationship between features and skin, whatever the skin tone itself. The undertone is cool, though slightly less pure-cool than Cool Winter, which is why Deep Winter sits on the border with Deep Autumn and can borrow a very dark, neutral-leaning colour from that side. Chroma is medium to rich: colours should be saturated and clear, never dusty.

The palette that follows is a jewel box at midnight. Midnight navy, deep wine, deep emerald teal, indigo, deep purple and burgundy-red are the statement colours; the accents push each of those even darker; and the neutrals run from ice white to jet black with silver greys between. Deep Winter is the one season where black is a genuine best colour rather than a compromise, and where a crisp icy white against black looks intentional rather than stark.

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

All 38 Deep Winter colours with hex codes

This is the Deep Winter 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.

• Deep Burgundy Red#8B0000
• Midnight Navy#00205B
• Deep Emerald Teal#004D40
• Deep Indigo#4B0082
• Deep Wine#800020
• Deep Royal Blue#002868
• Deep Forest Teal#005A4A
• Deep Purple#55008C
• Deep Crimson#6B0020
• Deep Steel Blue#003050

Everyday midtones (12)

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

• Deep Blue#0D47A1
• Deep Magenta Rose#880E4F
• Deep Teal#00695C
• Deep Purple#4A148C
• Deep Red#B71C1C
• Medium Deep Blue#1565C0
• Deep Cerise#9C1458
• Medium Deep Teal#007B68
• Medium Purple#5C1F9E
• Medium Deep Red#C62828
• Deep Cobalt#0B3D91
• Deep Wine Rose#7C0A44

Neutrals (8)

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

• Ice White#F0F0F0
• Black#1A1A1A
• Charcoal#4A4A4A
• Silver Grey#D0D0D0
• Icy White#F5F5F5
• Jet Black#141414
• Anthracite#3E3E3E
• Pale Grey#DADADA

Accents (8)

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

• Deep Red Accent#6A0012
• Deep Navy Accent#001849
• Deep Teal Accent#003028
• Deep Violet Accent#320064
• Deep Wine Accent#5C0015
• Deep Blue Accent#003880
• Deep Emerald Accent#003838
• Deep Magenta Accent#500050

Deep Winter power shades: the five to buy first

These five give Deep Winter its signature look: dark, cool and saturated. They are the colours the app surfaces first because they produce the strongest, cleanest contrast against deep colouring.

• Midnight Navy#00205B
• Deep Wine#800020
• Deep Emerald Teal#004D40
• Deep Indigo#4B0082
• Deep Burgundy-Red#8B0000

• Midnight Navy #00205B: Your first neutral after black, and often better than black for the face.
• Deep Wine #800020: The red that looks richest on deep, cool colouring; it makes dark eyes look darker.
• Deep Emerald Teal #004D40: A jewel tone with real depth, and the green that most people with Winter colouring underuse.
• Deep Indigo #4B0082: The purple that is dark enough for you; lighter violets look thin by comparison.
• Deep Burgundy-Red #8B0000: Your statement red: dark, cool and dramatic without being harsh.

Deep Winter colours to avoid

Warmth and paleness are the enemies. Warm beige, camel, peach, copper and yellow-green all carry a golden base that turns Deep Winter skin sallow. Muted, dusty shades such as sage, mushroom and dusty rose sit flat against high-contrast colouring and look like they belong to someone else. Light pastels are usually too weak, with the exception of icy versions worn as a bright accent against black. If in doubt, ask whether a colour is dark enough and cool enough; if it is neither, leave it.

• Warm Beige#F5DEB3
• Peach Pastel#FFDAB9
• Copper Orange#B87333
• Camel#C8AD7F
• Yellow-Green#9ACD32

Five shades that work against Deep Winter colouring

• Warm Beige: Muddy against cool, deep colouring; it makes skin look sallow.
• Peach Pastel: Warm and pale, the opposite of everything Deep Winter is.
• Copper Orange: Too warm; it clashes with a blue-based undertone.
• Camel: The Autumn neutral that makes Deep Winter look washed out.
• Yellow-Green: Warm, light and acidic; it fights your depth and your coolness at once.

Metals and jewellery for Deep Winter

Cool metals with weight. Silver, gunmetal, pewter and white gold all sit naturally against a cool, deep undertone; polished silver gives the sharpest contrast and darker gunmetal the most modern one. Yellow gold reads warm and can look brassy on you, but a very pale, cool-toned white gold is fine. Black, onyx and dark enamel jewellery are also excellent on Deep Winter.

Best metals: Silver, gunmetal, pewter, white gold.

Sister seasons and neighbours

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

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