Forest green on deep, cool skin tones (Deep Winter)
One of yours: with deep, cool colouring, forest green sits ΔE 5.0 from the nearest Deep Winter colour.
The answer
Yes. Forest green sits inside the Deep Winter palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #1E4A3E, ΔE 5.0 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 forest green scores across all twelve seasons
Forest green is an opinionated colour: Deep Winter scores it 87 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 forest green better, which is worth knowing before you talk yourself out of it.
- Deep Winter: 87 (ΔE 5.0) <- this season.
- Deep Autumn: 86 (ΔE 5.4).
- True Autumn: 67 (ΔE 13.2).
- Light Spring: 0 (ΔE 41.0).
What to wear it with
The palette entries closest to forest green 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.
- #1E4A3E: deep, a forest green (ΔE 5.0).
- #0E3B32: very deep, a forest green (ΔE 6.1).
- #1C3A44: very deep, a charcoal (ΔE 9.6).
Updated 19 August 2026