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.

Four Deep Winter outfit formulas

Deep Winter is the darkest season in the system, and the only one where black is a genuine best colour rather than a compromise. The formulas that work use that depth and then put one saturated colour against it.

Read each one as base, main colour, accent. The base can be as dark as you like; what matters is that the colour nearest your face is both deep and clear.

• The signature Black + Deep Wine + Icy White #1A1A1A #800020 #F5F5F5

  Black base, deep wine at the face, icy white accent. The highest-impact outfit in this palette, and one almost nobody else can wear.

• Navy instead of black Midnight Navy + Silver Grey + Deep Emerald Teal #00205B #D0D0D0 #004D40

  Midnight navy suit or coat, silver grey shirt, deep emerald teal accent. Navy is the daytime version of your black and it is kinder in photographs.

• Smart and deep Charcoal + Ice White + Deep Indigo #4A4A4A #F0F0F0 #4B0082

  Charcoal trousers, ice white shirt, deep indigo detail. The indigo is what stops this being a grey suit like anyone else's.

• Evening Jet Black + Deep Magenta Rose + Pale Grey #141414 #880E4F #DADADA

  Jet black base, deep magenta-rose at the face, pale grey accent. Cool, dark and saturated, which is the whole season in one outfit.

A six-piece Deep Winter capsule

Six garments, one colour each. Deep Winter is the one palette where the darkest neutral and the best colour can be the same garment, which makes the capsule unusually compact.

Buy the midnight navy coat and the ice white shirt first. They cover almost every occasion, and the wine and emerald pieces turn them into something memorable.

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.

The four near misses

Deep Winter shares its depth with Deep Autumn and its coolness with Cool Winter, so near misses come from both neighbours. Dark alone is not enough.

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  Chocolate Brown #7B3F00

  Dark enough, and warm, which is the half that fails. Brown next to cool deep colouring goes muddy and takes the sharpness out of the face. Wear Anthracite #3E3E3E instead.

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  Olive #808000

  It is deep, so it feels like it should work. It is also warm and muted, and Deep Winter is neither. Wear Deep Emerald Teal #004D40 instead.

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  Camel #C8AD7F

  The coat colour that everyone owns. On Deep Winter it is the one garment that consistently makes people ask whether you are unwell. Wear Charcoal #4A4A4A instead.

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  Dusty Rose #B76E79

  Cool, which is right, and greyed, which is not. Deep Winter pinks are deep and clear; the dusty version simply disappears. Wear Deep Magenta Rose #880E4F instead.

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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