Turquoise For 12 Seasons
June 15, 2010 by Christine Scaman
Turquoise is an IT color this year.
Q: If there’s a shade than flatters both Reese and Julia’s skin tone perfectly, what is it?
A: Trick Q. There isn’t one.
Better to find the precise shade(s) that looks riveting on you. Have an accurate 12 Season Personal Colour Analysis, and you will know for sure, forever after.
The colors shown are by no means the only turquoise option you have, whatever your Season (except True Winter). Since this is a blue and yellow based color, Seasons intimate with those colors, the Summers and Springs respectively, have more choices among their Color Analysis swatches.
Turquoise is warm and cool at once, so every Season has at least 1 choice.
True Spring’s colours are juicy and intensely happy. They’re ripe and dripping with pigment.
Bright Spring’s are clean, crisp, and pure. They are found in compositions that are the same, like this dress. These persons are deceptively Wintery in their appearance, and they wear clothes that are not-quite-Winter. The overall effect is light, not dark.
Light Spring is a Carribean shoreline on a sunny day.
True Summer is gauzy sheer, but not particularly light. Refreshing but gentle, like Blue Fescue grass.
Light Summer’s are icing colors.
Soft Summer is very grayed. When you add Autumn’s brown to Summer’s blue, you’ve mixed complementary colors. The result is gray, like sage.
True Autumn turquoise is greener.
Dark Autumn’s turquoises are dark enough to be teal.
Soft Autumn turquoise is how color appears in the desert.
True Winter only has the one. I wonder why. No heat-from-yellow (or heat-from-orange) tolerance? No, because Summer has many. Because yellow is light? Because there are other ways to make turquoise?
Dark Winter is bluer and sharper than Dark Autumn.
Bright Winter is electric acid turquoise.
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This is really useful. It really helps to see a comparison of all the seaons side by side. Thanks for this.
Well, I guess I’ve been wearing true autumn and light spring AND light summer’s colors, and looking good in all of ‘em!!!
Why is Bright Winter’s turquoise warmer than the Bright Spring’s one and the True Winter’s one is the warmest, almost green? I don’t get it.
You wrote that Bright Springs are “deceptively wintery” and “Bright Springs can make color analysts nervous because of their superficial resemblance to Autumns”. How do they look, anyway? I suspect a bit of Spring yellowishness in my natural colours.
(I wouldn’t be very happy about being a Spring, but nevermind…)
Thank you for this in-depth description. Learning color by comparison is truly fascinating. Most of these colors I wouldn’t have defined as turquoise and there are some authentic surprises here, like the true winter emerald turquoise looking very warm from what I see in my monitor (even warmer than bright winter turquoise), or the navy turquoise in the dark winter palette (a beautiful color, I remember seeing a photo of you Christine wearing that color in a top or dress and looking stunning).
A thought regarding True Winter:
If, according to Munsell, blue becomes darker as it becomes more saturated, but yellow becomes lighter, then add dark and light and it begins to be greyed/softened, hence True Summer having a number of variations.
That seems flawed, though, so I’m not sure. Why doesn’t this then happen with the Brights? I’ll have to think about this further.
Re: bright winter vs bright spring
I too am interested in knowing more about the affinity betweene the two seasons and how to see the differences in them. I found some palettes online (not Sci/art) and noticed that one of the differences is that while bright spring has olive and stone, bright winter has pine and pure white instead. This makes things very clear to me, if the difference is one of these I have no lingering doubts that I might be a bright winter afterall, but I wonder, is this really so even in the Sci/art swatches?
Turquoise is one of the hardest colors to get “right.” (Good reason to carry a swatchbook .) Actually, most of the things I’m seeing in the stores now — even as summer approaches — is a lot of muted, warm turquoise. (Not so good for winters and springs.) I love the idea of a bright color paired with black, or black in the pattern.
Isolating one color from the swatch collection of 60 opens a can of worms. Nobody could identify their Season from the palette above. If you could see the swatches laid out, you’d appreciate far greater differences and trends than the monitor can show.
Bright Spring can look very unusual, or very usual till you notice the deceptively colored eyes. I can’t even think of a celebrity, based solely on looks. Seeing one would not help you understand the group.
Ellen, I get what you mean. There’s something we need to elucidate here but I can’t quite formulate where I’m stuck.
Lucretia, the colors you mention, they’re too broad of a category. Pine green and olive could be put in several, depending on the shade. Bright Winter can balance shiny pure intense sapphire. It will look aggressive and dark on Bright Spring, who looks spectacular in clear light turquoise.
The Bright Winter and Spring swatches as they appear above, probably interchangeable.
Wow, there are so many shades of turquoise, some of them are really far from the idea of turquoise I’ve always had in my mind
Regarding the True Winter one, I would have expected it to be the same hue as the True Summer one, just darker and brighter. I don’t know about you, but the True Winter shade of the picture seems almost warm to me…it’s interesting, considering that it’s a true (cool) season, not a blend 
maybe it’s just me, but I really can’t help seeing it as “almost warm”. Anyway I’m more and more convinced that I’m a True Summer. It seems I can wear both True Summer’s and Light Summer’s turquoise, as long as the latter it’s not too icy, while the Soft Summer one makes my face grey and tired looking 
I am looking at the shade for dark autumn and I have an outfit in that exact color. My mother picked it out for me, and I was making noises about the color being too outrageous for me, I didn’t have anything in turquoise in the closet at the time.. but when I tried it that shade made my skin look amazing.
Chiara,
Partly monitor differences, partly needing to see (and wear) the color alongside the rest of the palette.
Nana,
Dark Autumn can definitely do a version of outrageous, but there are many noisemakers among the Season who have trouble realizing they look amazing when they’re not trying to look invisible. : )
Looking at these swatches make me smile. Years ago, when I was being draped with colors, my consultant draped me with a beautiful shade of Winter Torq. I immediately yanked the drape off. My color consultant was surprised and asked me why I did that. I really had no answer for my actions! So she told me she was going to put it back around me, and that I should take a moment to just look at the way it looked on me. I told her I really like Torq. but just not “ON” me, At that time I felt it was one of the flashiest of all my colors, and I was uncomfortable being flashy (even though most of winter’s colors could be considered Bold or Flashy) She advised me to get an inexpensive t-shirt in Torq. to get used to the color. It worked! I am now a “FAN” of Torq. LOL!