Mustard on deep, warm skin tones (Deep Autumn)
This one belongs to True Autumn, which scores mustard 81 against 42 for deep, warm colouring.
The answer
No. Mustard sits well outside the Deep Autumn palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #8C6420, ΔE 23.1 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 mustard scores across all twelve seasons
Mustard is an opinionated colour: True Autumn scores it 81 and True Winter scores it 0. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.
Deep Autumn sits 8 of twelve at 42, 39 points behind True Autumn. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.
- True Autumn: 81 (ΔE 7.6).
- True Spring: 79 (ΔE 8.4).
- Bright Spring: 75 (ΔE 10.0).
- Deep Autumn: 42 (ΔE 23.1) <- this season.
- True Winter: 0 (ΔE 34.1).
What to wear instead
Nearest first. These are the colours in the Deep Autumn palette that get closest to what you wanted from mustard, so the substitution costs the least.
- #8C6420: mid-tone, nearest common name olive green (ΔE 14.5).
- #8A7660: mid-tone, nearest common name olive green (ΔE 15.0).
- #7A5A18: deep, nearest common name olive green (ΔE 12.9).
Updated 19 August 2026