Terracotta on cool, light skin tones (Light Summer)

The answer

No. Terracotta sits well outside the Light Summer palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #8E9299, ΔE 27.0 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.

There is a second problem. Terracotta lands within ΔE 9.4 of #E8452C, which is on the short list of colours that actively work against Light Summer colouring. That is the failure people can see and cannot name.

How terracotta scores across all twelve seasons

Terracotta is an opinionated colour: Soft Autumn scores it 82 and Light Summer scores it 14. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

Light Summer sits 12 of twelve at 14, 67 points behind Soft Autumn. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.

• Soft Autumn: 82 (ΔE 7.4).
• True Autumn: 79 (ΔE 8.4).
• True Spring: 77 (ΔE 9.4).
• Light Summer: 14 (ΔE 27.0) <- this season.

What to wear instead

Nearest first. These are the colours in the Light Summer palette that get closest to what you wanted from terracotta, so the substitution costs the least.

• #8E9299: mid-tone, a grey (ΔE 4.7).
• #E8C0CC: light, a blush pink (ΔE 2.7).
• #F0CDD4: very light, a blush pink (ΔE 3.6).