Chocolate brown on deep, warm skin tones (Deep Autumn)

One of yours: with deep, warm colouring, chocolate brown sits ΔE 3.5 from the nearest Deep Autumn colour.

The answer

Yes. Chocolate brown sits inside the Deep Autumn palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #463020, ΔE 3.5 away. 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 chocolate brown scores across all twelve seasons

Chocolate brown is an opinionated colour: Deep Autumn scores it 91 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 is the top of that list. No season wears chocolate brown better, which is worth knowing before you talk yourself out of it.

  • Deep Autumn: 91 (ΔE 3.5) <- this season.
  • True Autumn: 79 (ΔE 8.6).
  • Soft Autumn: 67 (ΔE 13.4).
  • Light Summer: 0 (ΔE 39.6).

What to wear it with

The palette entries closest to chocolate brown 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.

  • #463020: very deep, a chocolate brown (ΔE 3.5).
  • #5A3418: deep, a chocolate brown (ΔE 5.0).
  • #3E2C1C: very deep, a chocolate brown (ΔE 5.4).

Updated 19 August 2026