Burgundy on warm skin tones with high contrast (Bright Spring)

This one belongs to Deep Autumn, which scores burgundy 97 against 44 for warm, high-contrast colouring.

The answer

No. Burgundy sits well outside the Bright Spring palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #2B2B2B, ΔE 22.3 away, which is one of the four neutrals the season is built on. Under 12 reads as the same colour family; past 25 the two are visibly different colours.

It does not collide with anything on the season's avoid list, so the only question is distance.

How burgundy scores across all twelve seasons

Burgundy is an opinionated colour: Deep Autumn scores it 97 and Light Summer scores it 0. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

Bright Spring sits 6 of twelve at 44, 53 points behind Deep Autumn. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.

  • Deep Autumn: 97 (ΔE 1.0).
  • Deep Winter: 91 (ΔE 3.8).
  • True Winter: 75 (ΔE 10.0).
  • Bright Spring: 44 (ΔE 22.3) <- this season.
  • Light Summer: 0 (ΔE 42.4).

What to wear instead

Nearest first. These are the colours in the Bright Spring palette that get closest to what you wanted from burgundy, so the substitution costs the least.

  • #2B2B2B: very deep, a charcoal (ΔE 5.2).
  • #E5399E: mid-tone, a fuchsia (ΔE 5.5).
  • #8A7355: mid-tone, nearest common name olive green (ΔE 13.1).

Updated 19 August 2026