Summer family · neutral-cool undertone · medium depth · soft chroma
Soft Summer color palette
Cool-leaning and muted — misty, elegant, low contrast.
Who is a Soft Summer?
Soft Summers are muted and cool-leaning with low contrast. Mushroom brown or ash blonde hair, grey-green, grey-blue, or soft hazel eyes, and neutral skin that reads cool rather than warm. The defining trait is softness: nothing about your coloring is loud.
Signs you might be a Soft Summer
- Bright or neon colors make you look tired; muted ones make you look expensive
- Jet black hair dye or platinum both look wrong on you
- Dusty rose, sage, and greyed blue feel like 'your' colors
- People say your eyes change color
Check with one selfie, free Vienne drapes you in your worst and best colors so you can see it, not guess it.
Soft Summer best colors
Muted, blended tones: dusty rose, sage, soft teal, mauve, slate blue, greyed lavender. Neutrals are grey, soft taupe, and stone. Avoid pure black, pure white, and anything saturated.
The full 60-color Soft Summer palette
The palette walks each of the season's twelve hues from light to deep within the Soft Summer range. Every Soft Summer on Vienne gets this with their result, plus their own three most striking colors.
Colors a Soft Summer should avoid
These come from your opposite season, Bright Spring. They pull your face in the wrong direction on every axis: neutral-warm where you are neutral-cool, medium where you are medium.
Neutrals
Metals
Brushed silver, pewter, antique rose gold. Nothing high-shine.
Makeup
Dusty rose and muted berry lips, soft mauve blush, grey-taupe shadow.
Hair
Mushroom brown, ash blonde, soft cool brunette. Avoid jet black and copper.
Not sure between seasons?
The other Summer seasons share your coolness but differ in depth or clarity: Light Summer and True Summer. Your opposite is Bright Spring. The fastest way to settle it is to see your own face on both.