The words analysts use

The chroma split in color analysis: does your coloring suit clear, saturated color or muted, greyed color.

A small, deliberately coordinated set of clothes, built from one season's palette, that mix and match easily.

A color's saturation or clarity, from pure and bright to muted and greyed.

A hinged fan of color swatches, one per season or subtype, used by consultants to compare shades quickly.

The visible gap in lightness between your hair, skin and eyes, from low and blended to high and dramatic.

The simple two-way split, cool tone or warm tone, often used as the entry point before narrowing to a season.

The most extreme trait in your natural coloring, hue, value or chroma, that a season's palette is built around.

The professional method of holding fabric swatches against the face in neutral light to see which colors suit best.

The idea that the twelve seasons form a closed circle, each blending gradually into its two neighbours.

The original color-analysis framework, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, decided mainly by warmth and clarity.

The color family itself, red, blue, yellow and so on, or in color analysis, the warm-to-cool axis.

The value split in color analysis: does your natural coloring sit at the pale end or the dark end.

Which jewelry metal, warm gold or cool silver, sits closest to your undertone and makes skin look clearest.

The three-dimensional color model, hue, value, chroma, that modern seasonal color analysis is built on.

An undertone that leans neither clearly warm nor clearly cool, the most common and hardest to read result.

The wearable base colors of a palette, camel, grey, navy and the like, that anchor a season's brighter shades.

Skin with a muted, greenish-gold undertone that can read warm, cool or neutral depending on the person.

The surface color cast that can shift with tanning or light, unlike the fixed undertone beneath it.

The Korean beauty industry's own color-analysis tradition, hugely popular and typically starting from a warm/cool split.

A system that matches clothing and makeup colors to a person's natural hue, value and chroma, grouped into seasons.

The second-strongest trait in your coloring, real but never as extreme as your dominant hue, value or chroma.

The two seasons on either side of yours on the color wheel, close enough to borrow colors from.

A further-subdivided color-analysis framework, common in Korea, that splits some of the twelve seasons even finer.

The modern color-analysis framework that splits the four classic seasons into twelve by dominant and secondary trait.

The fixed, underlying warmth or coolness of your skin, separate from surface tone or a tan.

How light or dark a color is, independent of its hue or saturation, from near-white to near-black.

Looking at wrist-vein color, green reads warm, blue reads cool, a popular but scientifically weak undertone test.

The most basic split in color analysis: does your undertone carry more yellow, warm, or more blue, cool.