Black on deep, warm skin tones (Deep Autumn)
One of yours: with deep, warm colouring, black sits ΔE 7.6 from the nearest Deep Autumn colour.
The answer
Yes. Black sits inside the Deep Autumn palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #241C14, ΔE 7.6 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 black scores across all twelve seasons
Black is an opinionated colour: Deep Winter scores it 93 and Light Summer scores it 0. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.
Deep Autumn sits 4 of twelve at 81, 12 points behind Deep Winter. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.
- Deep Winter: 93 (ΔE 3.0).
- True Winter: 93 (ΔE 3.0).
- Bright Winter: 93 (ΔE 3.0).
- Deep Autumn: 81 (ΔE 7.6) <- this season.
- Light Summer: 0 (ΔE 44.4).
What to wear it with
The palette entries closest to black are the ones that will read as a deliberate pairing rather than a near-miss, because a near-miss of two similar colours is more noticeable than a clear contrast.
- #241C14: very deep, a black (ΔE 7.6).
- #3B2F24: very deep, a chocolate brown (ΔE 8.5).
- #3E2C1C: very deep, a chocolate brown (ΔE 5.4).
Updated 19 August 2026