Every face has a season. Meet yours.

It takes about four minutes: 16 questions, some statements you agree or disagree with, some pairs of colors you compare next to your face, each answered on a row of seven circles. Every question counts toward one to three of four scales: warm to cool, light to deep, bright to soft, and low to high contrast. Your place on each scale is the weighted average of the answers that count toward it: an outer circle counts in full, the circles closer to the middle count less, the middle circle is left out, and the color pairs weigh more than the statements. The twelve seasons sit at fixed points on the first three scales, and contrast nudges you toward deep or light. The nearest season is your result, the next nearest your runner-up.

Tonesy has not measured its results against professional drapings, so it gives no accuracy figure. It is an indicator, not a draping. What it does show is how clear your lead is (a clear lead, a narrow lead or a close call, depending on how far your season is ahead of the runner-up), which way your answers pointed, and the runner-up season to compare in daylight.

Your answers and result are saved only in your browser's local storage, not on our servers, and there is no account to create. Clearing your browser data or switching devices will reset your result, so retake the quiz if that happens.

It can. Dyed hair keeps drawing the eye to its own color, and a tan changes the surface tone of your skin but not its undertone. Three questions ask about your natural coloring outright: your natural hair color, the glints in your natural hair and how your skin reacts to the sun without sunscreen. Answer the others, including the one about hair and skin contrast, with your natural hair and your usual reaction to the sun in mind too, not your current dye or tan.

Yes. The questions are about your skin, hair and eyes, not about gender, and the scoring is the same for everyone: warm or cool, light or deep, bright or soft, plus contrast. The season palettes apply the same way, and a suit, a tie or a shirt follows the same palette as any other piece of clothing.

The test holds back a season in two cases: when one of the three color scales (warm or cool, light or deep, bright or soft) got only middle answers, or when your answers sit so evenly between several seasons that none of them stands out. You then see the two closest seasons side by side. Retake it in daylight with a bare face, and use the outer circles where you feel sure.