Forest green on warm, rich skin tones (True Autumn)
Close without landing: with warm, rich colouring, forest green misses the True Autumn palette by ΔE 13.2.
The answer
Close, but not a match. Forest green sits just outside the True Autumn palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #3E6B52, ΔE 13.2 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.
True Autumn sits 3 of twelve at 67, 20 points behind Deep Winter. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.
- Deep Winter: 87 (ΔE 5.0).
- Deep Autumn: 86 (ΔE 5.4).
- True Autumn: 67 (ΔE 13.2) <- this season.
- Light Spring: 0 (ΔE 41.0).
What to wear instead
Nearest first. These are the colours in the True Autumn palette that get closest to what you wanted from forest 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