Emerald green on warm, rich skin tones (True Autumn)

Close without landing: with warm, rich colouring, emerald green misses the True Autumn palette by ΔE 11.6.

The answer

Close, but not a match. Emerald green sits just outside the True Autumn palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #3E6B52, ΔE 11.6 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 emerald green scores across all twelve seasons

Emerald green is an opinionated colour: True Winter scores it 84 and Light Summer scores it 31. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

True Autumn sits 2 of twelve at 71, 13 points behind True Winter. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.

  • True Winter: 84 (ΔE 6.3).
  • True Autumn: 71 (ΔE 11.6) <- this season.
  • True Summer: 64 (ΔE 14.4).
  • Light Summer: 31 (ΔE 27.5).

What to wear instead

Nearest first. These are the colours in the True Autumn palette that get closest to what you wanted from emerald green, so the substitution costs the least.

  • #3E6B52: deep, an emerald green (ΔE 11.6).
  • #2F6B60: deep, a teal (ΔE 6.9).
  • #4F6B34: deep, an olive green (ΔE 8.6).

Updated 19 August 2026