Warm Autumn Color Palette: Every Shade With Hex Codes

Warm Autumn, also called True Autumn, is the purest expression of warmth in the seasonal system: golden undertone, medium depth, and colours that look like they were mixed with a drop of amber. This is the complete Warm Autumn palette as it appears in the Tone & Fit app, all 38 shades with hex codes, plus the five to buy first, the ones to leave on the rail, and the metals that finish the look.

What defines Warm Autumn

Warm Autumn sits in the centre of the Autumn family. Its defining trait is temperature: the undertone is unmistakably warm, so much so that cool colours look almost wrong rather than merely less good. Depth is medium, which means neither the lightest nor the darkest version of a colour is the best one; the middle, fully saturated version usually is. Chroma is medium to rich, so colours can be fairly strong as long as they carry that toasted, sun-warmed quality.

Compared with its neighbours, Warm Autumn is brighter and lighter than Deep Autumn and clearer and warmer than Soft Autumn. It shares its warmth with its sister season Warm Spring, but Spring colours are clear and fresh while Autumn colours are muted and earthy: a Spring green is apple, an Autumn green is olive. The Warm Autumn palette is built from rust, pumpkin, mustard, olive, moss, teal and warm brown, with camel and cream as the anchors.

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

All 38 Warm Autumn colours with hex codes

This is the Warm 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.

• Rust Orange#C2622D
• Golden Mustard#B8860B
• Olive Green#6B8E23
• Warm Muted Teal#2E7A6C
• Warm Brown#A0522D
• Pumpkin Orange#CA6A35
• Deep Gold#8B6914
• Warm Wine Burgundy#7A3840
• Warm Forest Green#5A8058
• Deep Terracotta#D2723D

Everyday midtones (12)

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

• Warm Golden Orange Mid#D4955A
• Warm Golden Mid#C9A33E
• Olive Green Mid#7F9A65
• Muted Warm Teal Mid#7AA890
• Warm Terracotta Mid#CC8B6E
• Warm Amber Mid#DC9D62
• Warm Mustard Mid#D1AB46
• Warm Sage Mid#87A26D
• Warm Dusty Rose Mid#C4907A
• Warm Apricot Mid#E4A56A
• Warm Teal Green Mid#7EB298
• Warm Khaki Gold Mid#A89848

Neutrals (8)

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

• Warm Sand#D8CCBB
• Khaki Taupe#B5A48E
• Warm Stone#9C8D78
• Camel Beige#C7B8A2
• Cream Beige#DDD2C1
• Mushroom Tan#BAA994
• Walnut Taupe#A1927E
• Buff#CCBDA8

Accents (8)

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

• Deep Rust#A0430A
• Deep Gold Olive#8A7600
• Deep Olive Green#4F7302
• Deep Warm Teal#1E6057
• Deep Terracotta#923C1E
• Deep Burgundy#7A3040
• Vivid Rust Orange#B0531A
• Vivid Olive#567D1E

Warm Autumn power shades: the five to buy first

Start with these five. They are the shades the app surfaces first for Warm Autumn because they show the largest, most flattering difference against golden skin.

• Rust Orange#C2622D
• Golden Mustard#B8860B
• Olive Green#6B8E23
• Warm Muted Teal#2E7A6C
• Warm Wine-Burgundy#7A3840

• Rust Orange #C2622D: The signature Warm Autumn colour. Nothing else on the wheel looks this natural on golden skin.
• Golden Mustard #B8860B: Your yellow. Where a lemon yellow would look sickly, this reads as warm and expensive.
• Olive Green #6B8E23: The neutral-that-is-not-a-neutral; it pairs with every other colour here.
• Warm Muted Teal #2E7A6C: The blue-green that gives the palette its depth without any icy edge.
• Warm Wine-Burgundy #7A3840: Your evening colour: a red that leans brown rather than blue.

Four Warm Autumn outfit formulas

Warm Autumn, also called True Autumn, is the purest warm season in the deep half of the system. Gold runs through the whole palette, and the outfits that work are the ones where nothing cools it down.

Read each one as base, main colour, accent. If a colour would look right on a forest floor in October, it will probably look right on you.

• The signature Warm Sand + Rust Orange + Olive Green #D8CCBB #C2622D #6B8E23

  Warm sand base, rust orange at the face, olive green accent. This is the combination Warm Autumn is built for and the one most likely to get comments.

• Gold and bronze Camel Beige + Golden Mustard + Warm Muted Teal #C7B8A2 #B8860B #2E7A6C

  Camel beige trousers, golden mustard knit, warm muted teal accessories. Mustard is the colour most people avoid and most True Autumns should own.

• Smart and deep Cream Beige + Warm Wine Burgundy + Pumpkin Orange #DDD2C1 #7A3840 #CA6A35

  Cream beige shirt, warm wine-burgundy jacket, pumpkin orange detail. Your version of a dark suit, and it has actual warmth in it.

• Weekend earth Warm Stone + Warm Brown + Deep Gold #9C8D78 #A0522D #8B6914

  Warm stone base, warm brown top, deep gold accents. Three deep warm neutrals, which on this colouring reads as rich rather than drab.

A six-piece Warm Autumn capsule

Six garments, one colour each. Every piece in a True Autumn capsule has gold in it somewhere, and the wardrobe holds together because of that rather than in spite of it.

Buy the camel beige trousers and the warm brown shoes first. They are the two pieces that quietly decide whether everything else looks warm or muddled.

Warm Autumn colours to avoid

Anything cool, icy or electric works against you. Hot pink, fuchsia, royal blue and cool purples pull the warmth out of your skin and leave it looking sallow. Pale, powdery pastels are too light and too cold to hold their own against your colouring. Pure black and stark white are the most common mistakes: neither is in your palette, and both create a harsh, cold edge near the face. Espresso and dark olive replace black; cream beige and warm sand replace white.

• Hot Pink#FF1493
• Royal Blue#4169E1
• Pure Black#000000
• Stark White#FFFFFF
• Icy Pastel#E0FFFF

Five shades that work against Warm Autumn colouring

• Hot Pink: Cool and neon; it makes warm skin look sallow by comparison.
• Royal Blue: Too cool and too clear; it drains the gold from your face.
• Pure Black: Heavier than anything in your palette; espresso or dark olive is a better dark.
• Stark White: Chalky against warm skin; cream beige is your white.
• Icy Pastel: Light and cold, the exact opposite of your colouring.

The four near misses

Warm Autumn near misses are the cool colours that have been sold as classics. Each one is a good colour on somebody, and that somebody is not you.

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  Navy #000080

  The default smart neutral, and the one that does most damage here. Navy is cool and flat against golden colouring, and it makes the skin look grey under the chin. Wear Deep Warm Teal #1E6057 instead.

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  Silver Grey #C0C0C0

  Cool grey looks modern and neutral on a rail. On warm deep colouring it washes the face out and makes the whole outfit look like it belongs to someone else. Wear Khaki Taupe #B5A48E instead.

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  Cool Pink #FF69B4

  Bright cool pinks fight this palette on both counts: too cool and too clear. The warm dusty version is the one that works. Wear Warm Dusty Rose Mid #C4907A instead.

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  Icy White #F0F8FF

  Blue-white next to golden skin makes the skin read yellow. Cream costs the same and does the opposite. Wear Cream Beige #DDD2C1 instead.

Metals and jewellery for Warm Autumn

Gold is the universal Autumn metal and Warm Autumn wears the richest version of it. Polished yellow gold, copper and brass all suit you, and you can wear them bright rather than antiqued. Silver and platinum sit cold against a warm undertone and can make skin look grey, so if you want a lighter metal try a warm champagne gold instead. Tortoiseshell, amber and warm wood finishes belong to you as well.

Best metals: Rich yellow gold, copper, brass.

Sister seasons and neighbours

Warm Autumn borders Warm Spring and Soft Autumn. 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 Warm Autumn, Warm Spring vs Warm Autumn.

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