Charcoal on deep, cool skin tones (Deep Winter)

The answer

Yes. Charcoal sits inside the Deep Winter palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #3E4148, ΔE 3.3 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 charcoal scores across all twelve seasons

Charcoal is an opinionated colour: Deep Winter scores it 92 and Light Spring scores it 0. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

Deep Winter is the top of that list. No season wears charcoal better, which is worth knowing before you talk yourself out of it.

• Deep Winter: 92 (ΔE 3.3) <- this season.
• True Winter: 88 (ΔE 4.8).
• Bright Winter: 87 (ΔE 5.3).
• Light Spring: 0 (ΔE 37.8).

What to wear it with

The palette entries closest to charcoal 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.

• #3E4148: deep, a charcoal (ΔE 3.3).
• #182C3E: very deep, a navy (ΔE 7.4).
• #1C1C22: very deep, a black (ΔE 5.5).