Rust on warm, rich skin tones (True Autumn)

The answer

Yes. Rust sits inside the True Autumn palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #B5541E, 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 rust scores across all twelve seasons

Rust is an opinionated colour: True Autumn scores it 88 and Light Summer scores it 0. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

True Autumn is the top of that list. No season wears rust better, which is worth knowing before you talk yourself out of it.

• True Autumn: 88 (ΔE 5.0) <- this season.
• Deep Autumn: 87 (ΔE 5.1).
• True Spring: 71 (ΔE 11.8).
• Light Summer: 0 (ΔE 34.4).

What to wear it with

The palette entries closest to rust 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.

• #B5541E: mid-tone, a rust (ΔE 5.0).
• #A04428: deep, a rust (ΔE 6.3).
• #A85838: mid-tone, a rust (ΔE 7.2).