True Autumn vs Deep Autumn

How to tell which one you actually are.

The short answer. Same warmth, different depth. True Autumn sits at medium — rust and mustard. Deep Autumn needs chocolate and burgundy, and medium shades start to look washed out on it.

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Deep Autumn

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What separates them, from each side

Each guide describes the other from its own point of view, and the two tests are different. This is the only page that carries both.

Read from True Autumn

Warm but darker than you. A Deep Autumn needs chocolate and burgundy to look finished and finds mid-tone rust slightly washed out. If the darkest browns make you look richer than mid-tone earth colors do, look here.

Read from Deep Autumn

Warmer and a step lighter than you. A True Autumn is at its best in mid-depth earth colors, rust and mustard and olive, and does not need the darkest browns. If chocolate and burgundy make you look richer than rust does, stay here; if rust is the one that lights you up, look next door.

Check it on yourself

The self-check from the True Autumn guide

Do these in daylight, with a bare face if you can.

Wear rust as a whole top. If it looks like you, you are a True Autumn. If it looks too loud, try Soft Autumn; if it looks faded, try Deep Autumn.
Hold cream and pure white against your jaw. If cream is clean and white is harsh, you are on the warm side.
Hold camel and chocolate. If camel looks complete and chocolate looks heavy, stay here; if chocolate makes you look richer, try Deep Autumn.

The self-check from the Deep Autumn guide

Do these in daylight, with a bare face if you can.

Hold chocolate and black against your face. If chocolate is clearly better, you are an autumn.
Hold cream and pure white. If cream is clean and white is harsh, you are an autumn.
Wear rust as a whole top. If it looks as good as burgundy does, you may be a True Autumn; if burgundy wins, stay here.

Still not sure?

The Style-LORE quiz works it out from a photo taken in daylight and shows you the reasoning rather than just the label — then checks anything in your closet, or anything you are about to buy, against the answer. Free, and no account needed to start.

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The full guides

True Autumn — the complete guide
Deep Autumn — the complete guide

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